The paperback of my book SALTWATER MANSIONS is out today. It's about what happened when I discovered a woman had vanished without trace and I fell down a rabbit hole about it. I was not the only one. Buy it to use as a fan if you like. Handy link in the reply.

The paperback of SALTWATER MANSIONS comes out on June 20th, which is soon, it's undeniable. Don’t miss this golden opportunity to get your hands on the book one recent reader took to the internet to succinctly call a “waste of time”. Nicer comments also available, as seen on cover, here.

A Christmas gift idea. I will come to your house on Christmas morning and read the entire thing aloud. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...

I wrote one of the episodes for the newly relaunched Play For Today, which starts tonight (my episode is on in a couple of weeks). This is an article about that . www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

I will be saying things to the brilliant @lamowens.bsky.social in response to things she has said to me at Margate Book Festival on October 11th. www.margatebookie.com/bookie-2025-...

News of my controversial plans to celebrate my new nickname have been leaked to the Metro.

My book is 99p on Kindle for a limited time. What a feeling. The Telegraph said 'Genre-bending, genius . . . A superb, intoxicating book'. Please buy and read it if you can.

My book is 99p on Kindle for a limited time. What a feeling. The Telegraph said 'Genre-bending, genius . . . A superb, intoxicating book'. Please buy and read it if you can.

My book is 99p on Kindle at the moment, if that’s the kind of thing that feeds your cat. amzn.eu/d/875KsrE

Even I’m sometimes reluctant to watch or read things I recommend, but I watched this film, Hundreds of Beavers, last night and I thought it was great. www.hundredsofbeavers.com

Talking about my book at Canterbury Waterstones tonight if that's your bag. @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/autho...

Found some hardcore fawn in the woods.

I’ve written a bit of TV. It’s called Intruder and stars Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird. It’ll be on later in the year. www.televisual.com/news/5-revea...

I’ve written a bit of TV. It’s called Intruder and stars Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird. It’ll be on later in the year. www.televisual.com/news/5-revea...

I wrote one of these.

What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your Oasis live ‘25 Prosecco Supernova gourmet popcorn delicately infused with notes of apple and white blossom.

This evening I read 'Saltwater Mansions: The Woman Who Disappeared and Other Untold Stories' by David Whitehouse. While the mystery of the woman who vanished initially intrigues you, it's the other stories of other people's lives that engross you to the end. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook

Set phasers to self-promote, but I really loved this review of my book.

At just under 200 pages, Saltwater Mansions is the perfect short holiday read. It’s a story about memory, the stories we tell, and a woman’s disappearance. 10/10. #Books #BookSky #NonFiction

My review anticapitalistmusings.com/2025/07/the-...

The story that became Saltwater Mansions was told to David while he was in the chair at his local hairdressers. Once again, us follicly challenged authors looking for book ideas are at a distinct and unfair disadvantage. #oppressed

My book just got a nice big review in The Times. Best review of book they’ve ever published? Impossible to say, it’s behind a paywall. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

This book arrived in Argyll today. Very much looking forward to it @dwhitehouse.bsky.social #books #nowreading #booksky

Saltwater Mansions: The woman who disappeared and other untold stories is in Margate during the 2010s, unfolds against the backdrop of the town’s ongoing gentrification. It’s also a moving memoir of Whitehouse’s father and his working-class upbringing in the Midlands.

An investigation into the missing occupant of a Margate flat turns into a rumination on the many ways people can disappear from places, and how places change and themselves effectively disappear, and how these things go hand in hand with the various movements of grief. Utterly superb, essential read

I really enjoyed Saltwater Mansions and made me think a lot about how where we are at (in life) and what we are experiencing or mourning impacts how we digest stories and life. Was not what I was expecting, and grateful for that. David is an incredible writer.

Tonight! Air conditioning!

A brilliant bit on an always brilliant Substack about my new book and its unexpected AI mutant spawn. Read and subscribe I say.

This book is absolutely incredible. If you enjoyed Birding, then I think you will love this

I’ve just finished listening to this on Audible, narrated by the author. It’s a tremendous, touching, true tale (all the ‘t’s there…unplanned) very well told. (Ooops… another one). So very absorbing and thought provoking. I recommend that you give it a read or a listen.

My new book, Saltwater Mansions, is out today. It’s about how I fell down a rabbit hole, the extraordinary people I fell down it with, and why we fell down it in the first place. Please buy it if you like. Link below. Thank you. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...

A lovely 5 star review of my book in The Telegraph.

Wrote this in The Observer about my book, my dad and other stuff. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

Now THIS is a very good book indeed. It's moving, gripping and unlike anything else you'll read this year. Basically it's your classic Whitehouse read.

My new book is now a physical thing. They look really great. It’s a book about a woman who vanished, the people obsessed with finding her (including me), my dad, and the amazing stories in hidden lives. You can pre-order it here if you like please. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...

Saltwater Mansions, by me, is named one of the best new books to read in June in this nice article that also claims I wrote About A Boy, which I didn't, regrettably. inews.co.uk/culture/book...

My book is out in two weeks. The self-promotional push! It begins!

Recording my audiobook, cursing the genetics behind my fat tongue.

A brilliant piece from @dwhitehouse.bsky.social in The Fence, featuring this gem ‘Who was Coventry City’s FA Cup-winning goalkeeper in 1987?’, ‘Steve Ogrizovic’, she’d respond, two words they’d receive at a cost of a pound with their underpants a hammock between their knees. @thefence.bsky.social

On September 11, 2001, @dwhitehouse.bsky.social was sexting hundreds of strangers.

I wrote this about what I was doing on 9/11 (helping hundreds of terrified men achieve orgasm while pretending to be a nurse). www.the-fence.com/hold-the-pho...

Stop what you're doing and read this truly astonishing piece from @dwhitehouse.bsky.social www.the-fence.com/hold-the-phone

"Having spent a good part of the last five years moving between higher education and second hand bookshops, I did what a character in a video game based on me would resort to as a special move – I took a book off the shelf and looked it up." open.substack.com/pub/precisei...

Some great writers have said nice things about my new book, and you can pre-order it here please. geni.us/SaltwaterMan...

I've written a true story about how I spent 9/11 helping hundreds of terrified men to reach orgasm, in the new issue of The Fence.

Really happy to see my book Saltwater Mansions on this knitted blanket of June’s best new non-fiction.

I love Dani Garavelli's writing and the things she writes about, so I am very happy about this. 👇

This is great. It interrogates our internet-fuelled need to solve mysteries while perversely trying to solve 1. It's also a testament to the way our untold stories - of grief, of love, of hope - shape our lives. Margate, with its decline/gentrification & Waste Land resonances, is the ideal setting.