I've heard that Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where the Serpent Lives is *extraordinary* & Kenan Orhan has been on my Must Read list for a while, but so many exciting-sounding debuts here - hooray for genius translator & Good Egg Polly Barton in partic www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

JEAN is out in Feb. Set in a boarding school for troubled boys in the 1970s, it's a love story, a coming-of-age tale, and an exploration of what might spark someone to try to escape all that they know:

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Thanks to those who donated, they’re 1/5th to the goal of a new tent. They need 330 € more.

Ah! A Christmas blessing!! A submission! On the 18th of December! just what any editor wants at this time of year.

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AND a personal favourite of mine (I love all our covers nb), Jack Smyth's for Claire Baglin's ON THE CLOCK (tr. Jordan Stump) was on the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy list too. Jack went totally off piste for this, the sly, wise genius lithub.com/the-173-best...

cheering from the rooftops for David Pearson (@typeasimage on insta), whose cover for our edition of Joe Brainard's I REMEMBER was TOP (?!?!) of the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy covers round-up of the year (my fave annual round-up, cannot wait to dig into it properly) lithub.com/the-173-best...

loser behavior. check out this book about the guys from the original photo, who were actual tradesmen who knew skills besides con artistry

Forever grateful to Max Porter for including her on a lockdown playlist (ahhh good times) for Faber - pure spine-tingling magic.

In April 2026, we publish two novels by the Japanese author Nao-Cola Yamazaki, both exploring the beauty and pain of love. Don't Laugh... is tr. by Polly Barton, Beautiful Distance by Charlotte Goff. These gorgeous covers are designed by Luke Bird, with illustrations by Ryo Kaneyasu.

what's key is to read the alt text

I love this book SO MUCH - I've been banging on about it to friends and Team Daunt, thrilled I can finally bang on about it to everyone else. I felt it cracked my heart wide open and poured golden sunlight into it (a good thing):

BAIT by Eugenia Ladra (translator: Miriam Tobin. Out next year from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social ) is excellent. It reminded me (trivially) of Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe (the good Ned Kelly novel, {not the famous Ned Kelly novel) And it reminded me of Thomas Hardy And it reminded me of Clarice L

Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry. He adds that it's Max Roach time over on Radio 3: "Give yersel' a treat!"

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Thrilled that Claire Baglin's ON THE CLOCK (tr. Jordan Stump) is in @telegraph.co.uk's Greatest Books of 2025!! The Telegraph is consistently good at reviewing literature in translation and it SO APPRECIATED www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

just realised it won't be long before BEST COVERS OF THE YEAR round-ups, delicious, chomp chomp, I'll scrape up every crumb

Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway. The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"

Once again they have deleted Lubna's account. She is less than $500 away from her goal. Can you please help her? I really dont know what else to do, can you commit to supporting someone regularly? Lubna is exhausted and donations have evaporated, she needs love and support

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action. So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

Longshot, but does anyone know how we should get this bit of paper out of the printer? We think we need to call a screwdriver into service but maybe there's an easier way?!

Lovely surprise in the post today, a gorgeous proof of @dauntbookspub.bsky.social reissue of THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING. So great to see Beryl Bainbridge prepped to find a new audience. Big thanks @marigoldatkey.bsky.social this is right up my alley!

love this - 'I am interested always in working at that membrane between the realities of what is happening, what has just happened, & what I perceive of all of this. Am I at work, or am I pretending to be at work?' - & he is great on AI, the perfect foil to Nigel Newton's depressing thoughts

Eli is the brilliant person who set up the rolling #hungerstrikeforgaza that I am part of (and that anyone can join! You can just do 24hrs, you don't have to do 48. You don't have to be a writer, or in publishing!!). This is such a great piece by her:

What a list to be on! Very happy about this. @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social

We’re heartbroken by the death of dear Jon. Many have asked how to help. Please consider supporting our effort to honor his legacy at Bookseller Crow. Share and donate if you can. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/bookseller...

Israeli President Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired into Gaza He’s been named in the ICJ order which found Palestinians at “imminent risk” of genocide Today Starmer is rolling out the red carpet for him - instead he should be arrested for war crimes

Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA

It honestly might be my favourite Elisa Shua Dusapin? So elegant, melancholic and layered:

Anuradha Roy's CALLED BY THE HILLS: A HOME IN THE HIMALAYA is out in January. Sophy Roberts is also a fan, writing: 'Elegant, witty, literary and humane. This is a portrait of a place that will touch your soul.’

are we all placing bets on Amol Rajan getting the Bragg job then

publisher is my name, ops, royalties, and screaming into the void is my game

who would have thought that so much of my life would be spreadsheets eh

whoops meant to quote: the New Yorker captured this v charmingly too www.newyorker.com/culture/podc...

bawling along with Winner Takes It All as I bash through royalty hell, I'm fine, this is fine

it's SPINSTER TIME!! Anita Brookner is our queen, sorry, I don't make the rules, but my god she keeps killer company:

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In the articles I have read in the mainstream press Jon Boyne has been giving space to share his feelings, his human response to this, which is exactly as it should be. But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8

In an article about authors opting out of a literary prize, you have included a statement from only one of those authors. On the other hand, you have chosen to include the words of two other major gender critical voices, neither of whom were in any way affiliated with the prize. 2/

absolutely with @krishk.com and Lord Dubs - Robert Jenrick *was* being xenophobic. Current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social continue to find new ways to disappoint, anger and depress us www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Brilliant.

this will be SO GOOOOD - Tamás's 'Strangers', with the wonderful Makina, was brilliant:

Team, has anyone found a fail-safe way to send books to Ireland? I fill in the customs sticker AND I fill in all the info required by the customs portal on the royal mail site, yet am still having books returned to me. Am I going to have to give up all hope of getting books to Ireland?

Catapult's covers NEVER FAIL!! (see last year's 'The Coin' - a delight)

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

New Writers Prize for 5,000 word short story. Prize is £3K and scholarship for MA at Brunel University, runner up prizes too. Details in link. Please share :)

oh good, another week of seeing that we have zero stock available at HarperCollins, because the actual stock is still being moved; so no sales being made. Delightful!! Teething problems teeeeeeeeeeeeeeethiiiiiiiiing problemmmmmsssss oh charlie redmayne you little scamp