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Marigold Atkey

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Publisher at Daunt Books; she/her

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
darling, funny, illuminated poet lieke marsman died on june 3rd in paris. this is a very difficult read but yes, putting it here.
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from On Another Planet They Can Save Me - Asymptote
from God, PerhapsI don’t remember much from the day I was told that I was terminally ill. The one thing I do recall clearly is that I threw myself rather dramatically to the hospital floor,...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
THE DAVID COATES STAMP OF APPROVAL!! The Owl Bookshop's Gary last week, now David?! cock-a-hoop for Jean.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
DAVUD, HOORAY, THANK YOU
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I LOVE INDEXERS!! A brilliant index is a thing of beauty. I don't really get to commission them anymore but I think the one for the Francis Bacon biog at William Collins was one of my faves. Exquisite, thoughtful, comprehensive.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
cannot wait to gab* with Fatima Bhutto and Sarah Dennis *be intensely professional and illuminating
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Beryl Bainbridge!
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/03/2026
What in the absolute fuck is this.
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
omni-Booker-shortlisted. Rushdie WISHES.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
there we go, lovely stuff, YES
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm losing all sense of up & down. 'From the five-time Booker-shortlisted author' - why does that somehow look right? Surely it should be 'five-TIMES Booker-shortlisted author'?? But when I make it plural, I then feel the urge to make it 'the five times' Booker-shortlisted' (surely deranged). Help?
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
yoweee!! I'm *very* excited (and psyching myself up - 8.45 at the bfi?! What kind of likely bedtime do you call THAT, Marigold?!)
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I'm such a fan of a 90-min film but this one not a second dragged DESPITE its, yes, beautiful, measured pace. I'm obsessed (and entirely smitten by Wagner Moura). I could write essays on all that I loved about it. CINÉMA!! Sirat next for me...
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
a well-rounded and nutritious diet
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
alternating every other thought with a thought about The Secret Agent
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thrilled to announce we have a new editor heading our way, to replace the wonderful Dredhëza: Ben Oldfield, currently at the Wylie Agency, will be joining us at the end of this month. We're so excited to see how he helps shape the list: www.thebookseller.com/news/daunt-b...
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Daunt Books Publishing appoints Ben Oldfield as editor
Ben Oldfield has been appointed to the role of editor at Daunt Books Publishing.
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Over the (nearly full) moon to announce a new Amina Cain is on the way. This exquisite, enigmatic novel will slip under your skin and into your dreams. Forever grateful to Amina (and Devon at FSG) for trusting us with her brilliance.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
the inchworm!! I love this. Strength to you and her. I'm so excited that you have the Forbidden Notebook ahead of you - I'd be astonished if you didn't love...
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I feel sure you must have read Alba de Céspedes' THE FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK (tr. Ann Goldstein) but just in case you haven't got round it yet, I would hard hard rec. For a new book, Rebecca Perry's MAY WE FEED THE KING is exquisite. Big love, Alex, I'm so sorry about your mother.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Booker International contender of the future nb
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Cannot wait. LOVED the sample, not to mention the sound of the book itself. What a killer duo of publishers!! Congratulations.
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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
deliberate swerve and crash, on a completely deserted street, both times.Apparently it's a big problem in Japan. V strange. And also: not at all. PLUS CA CHANGE EH.
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Tiernan Blanchard is in SPOOKY MODE @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Requesting from libraries helps tell them what readers want, too, so helps them spend their budget more accurately. And, my librarians tell me, requests helps them advocate for a higher budget. Because 'look at all these books we didn't have that people wanted!'
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
the pushing-women thing is SO ODD. I've had it happen to me twice (& I'm white, middle-aged & not pretty, so am usually fairly invisible): both times it was so startling & aggressive. It's a mild form of what's in this piece but it's worrying to extrapolate from: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson
Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’s, says Lucy Pasha-Robinson, a Guardian assistant Opinion editor
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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dave vs Bacon
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
magnificent
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
whoops, missed the title but maybe that was a cunning tactic to get you to click into AND READ this most fabulous of reviews?! Couldn't ask for a better one, tbh:
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
How can the other parties not beat this? I mean, seriously? These people should be shouted down in roars of laughter the minute they say this. Just toxic. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
oh nooo Fatima is talking about a really heartbreaking moment in THE HOUR OF THE WOLF, a small, lovely moment of kindness from a stranger providing such a contrast to the man's persistent cruelty: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Fatima Bhutto on secrets, lies and surviving coercive control – podcast
The Pakistani writer on enduring an abusive relationship in the public eye, and how she broke free
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
wowza, this month's Debut Nights line-up at Bàrd Books is SO GOOD!! Our own beloved Madeleine Dunnigan, author of JEAN, joins Rebecca Perry (MAY WE FEED THE KING - adore, adore), Madeline Cash (LOST LAMBS - apparently HUGE fun) and Tobi Coventry (HE'S THE DEVIL - killer title, killer cover): Feb 18!
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Longing to listen to this - I adore Fatima, she's so smart, so warm, and pairs vulnerability and strength so beautifully in her writing:
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Jack Smyth is such a genius!! He came up with the collage idea out of nowhere and it's so killer (and will be really fun to return to and keep fresh over the years)
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
this is SO nice to see, thank you!! Not that it's my place to thank - I'm really thanking on behalf of the predecessors who built such a brilliant list. But it's such a joy and a privilege to be adding to it - and seeing more readers come to our older books...
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
not quite whole, alas (although retypesetting and proofreading 13 was.... quite something...) BUT YES!! THE BAINBRIDGE RENAISSANCE IS NIGH
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
LOVE emerging from my burrow to find this Bainbridge Appreciation afoot!!
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
crikey, your review has sold it to me HARD
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Deeply worrying. I saw only the other day that I'd missed protests against Homerton hospital entering a deal with them. Palantir supply technology to the IDF & ICE: we must resist their coming anywhere near our data & our lives. Grim, yet wholly unsurprising, that our gov is so tangled up with them:
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Dream job with @thebookerprizes.com !! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #edusky #charityjobs #booksky
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)
A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking forward to our May event with you @marigoldatkey.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social and #author Fatima Bhutto #booksky #IndependentAlliance Festival general booking opens 1 Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
was thinking of this event only earlier today!! So looking forward to it!
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
'Charged with intimate undercurrents of both resentment and affection' - @keeblearin.bsky.social for the @financialtimes.com on Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins and out now, hooray!!) (I can v much recommend Helen of Nowhere too)
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lovely, thoughtful review of Fatima Bhutto's THE HOUR OF THE WOLF: 'Tender and insightful'. Out in the US tomorrow (!), out in the UK next month. 'The uplifting finale begs the question of what valuable lessons we could all learn from respecting, rather than ransacking, the natural world.'
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Love that @seventydys.bsky.social extracts the serious core of Ashton Politanoff's 'Dad Had a Bad Day':
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
An honour to be in the company of the likes of Fitzcarraldo, Faber and Canongate, and to be working alongside so many kindred spirits:
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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
To all that object to us pointing out the fact that Israel is a goddamned apartheid state... now do you see it?
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
our wonderful debut novelist Madeleine Dunnigan ('JEAN' is out NEXT MONTH!!) has written a piece in praise of the boarding-school novel - find it here chez @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/containment-...
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Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel
The first half of Alice Winn’s bestselling In Memoriam is set at Preshute, an English boys’ boarding school in the early twentieth century. It is here, in the idyllic countryside, where the boys di…
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Marigold Atkey @marigoldatkey.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
help need to go and collect levi but excited to read later!! THANK YOU!!
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