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Daunt Books Publishing is devastated at the news that poet, philosopher and author Lieke Marsman has died. Former Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, Lieke was a writer of blazing originality, rigorous ...

The critically-acclaimed author will be in the UK promoting her latest books, Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya. Friday 13 March – Parade’s End Books, Kingston-on-Thames Tuesday 17 March – W...

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To write ‘False Calm’, María Sonia Cristoff returned to her birthplace, Patagonia, two decades after she left it. She wanted to understand why it has a global reputation for being a place of isolation...

Queer self-discovery drives this powerful coming-of-age debut set in a bohemian 1970s school

England. 1976. Jean – a teenage boy – is getting a mild dressing down in the headmaster’s study at Compton Manor. The headmaster is David Larkin, although he insists that the boys – and they’re all bo...

The memory of Majumdar’s writing makes its presence felt in Anuradha Roy’s 'Called by the Hills', even before she is mentioned by the author

The Pakistani writer on enduring an abusive relationship in the public eye, and how she broke free

From the London streets that brought us Charlie Chaplin to the deep freeze of northern Siberia, here are this month’s short reviews from the magazine

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about In Conversation with Anuradha Roy - 'Called by the Hills' today.

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Are we alone in the universe? Goya’s late, great painting of a dog in distress spoke to Fatima Bhutto at a challenging moment in her life

In The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Dusapin two sisters reunite to clear out their father’s dilapidated house –but then things take a weird turn

The author on the trouble with the Brönte novels, what she gained from reading John Updike and Martin Amis – and the brilliance of Barbara Pym

Anuradha Roy - Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

This season, here are the atmospheric reads with which to hunker down as the nights draw in and the frost...

All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to

Croatian writer and book coach Lidija Hilje talks family, home, writing, success and the joy of the library

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 thrust the Donbas region onto the front pages of newspapers worldwide, yet the area remained frustratingly

Novelist Sarah Waters and film editor Walter Murch share favourite books.

La nueva novela de Nona Fernández: la cinematográfica historia de Mauricio Hernández Norambuena. Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

JANUARY Called By the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya by Anuradha Roy | Non-fiction | £11.99 | 15 January 2026 When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in Ranikhet, the...

Join us in celebrating International Translation Day 2025 with a conversation on publishing foreign literature in the UK

Daunt Books Publishing is an independent publisher based in London. Founded in 2010, we grew out of Daunt Books, an independent chain of bookshops in London and the South-East. We publish the finest a...

Think twisted romance, dark glamour and high-concept plots

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

From Fri 22 Aug - Discover two bold new voices from Spain, recently published in English for the first time. Writing in the tradition of the Spanish literary greats, Elisa Levi and Sara Mesa’s fiction...

Many readers and writers think of epistolary novels as old-fashioned, just as letter writing itself can seem a bit quaint nowadays. The genre became popular during the 18th and 19th centuries followin...

I’m going through a bit of a reading slump at the moment, not a terrible one as I’m finding I can focus on my comfort reads, but I’m struggling with anything that needs more concentration. It’s ver…

A quietly strong list includes novels by Claire Adam, Kiran Desai, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller and David Szalay

Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility

Books feel richer, more immersive and more effortlessly page-turning when you are way, but it can be that way in the UK, too

Buy Journey Under the Sea (Choose Your Own Adventure) by R. A. Montgomery from Daunt Books today. New Fiction, Non-Fiction books and Travel Guides available from Daunt Books. Worldwide shipping availa...

The barrister and the writer discuss books they feel passionate about.

Review by Dion Everett