Dave vs Bacon

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:

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...

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...

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!

Longing to listen to this - I adore Fatima, she's so smart, so warm, and pairs vulnerability and strength so beautifully in her writing:

LOVE emerging from my burrow to find this Bainbridge Appreciation afoot!!

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:

Dream job with @thebookerprizes.com !! #ukkidlit #kidlituk #edusky #charityjobs #booksky

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.)

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...

'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)

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.'

Love that @seventydys.bsky.social extracts the serious core of Ashton Politanoff's 'Dad Had a Bad Day':

An honour to be in the company of the likes of Fitzcarraldo, Faber and Canongate, and to be working alongside so many kindred spirits:

To all that object to us pointing out the fact that Israel is a goddamned apartheid state... now do you see it?

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-...

I actually DO donate to Wikipedia now and again and I love that it's the work of this invisible unpaid army of geeks and enthusiasts and experts. This is so disappointing:

there's a local character who, whenever I tell him my name, cries, without fail, 'THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY'. Well, anyone, in the darling days of May (sun! greenery!) I'll be @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social talking to Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social, with beloved Fatima Bhutto zooming in:

one applicant thinks they could bring a lot to Faber Children's. Good for them!!

SCREAMING at the number of applicants to our editor job only sending in their cv. READ THE POST. Ye godddds.

those of these I've read, I love, so I must clearly soon read those I haven't:

Sarah Moss in the @theguardian.com's The Books of My Life: 'All books change my mind, that’s what they are for. Recently @hystericalblkns.bsky.social’s Ordinary Notes altered the way I understand much of the world around me.' www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

❤️🌎🏖️ I am LONGING for others to read and fall in love with this beautiful, special novel so this recommendation has made my rainy pm:

Aspiring editors! Fancy joining our team? jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28558...

From the archive for Pamela Frankau, #BornOnThisDay in 1908, my thoughts on A WREATH FOR THE ENEMY. Pretend we’re in the midst of a lush, sun-drenched summer with this gorgeous coming-of-age story and its unexpected turns. #PamelaFrankau #BOTD #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/a...

I missed this gorgeous review by @westcamel.bsky.social back in Dec of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) for European Literary Network: 'A major piece of work that deserves repeated rereading to unpack each of its mythic items.' www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

Lovely to see Madeleine Dunnigan's JEAN incl in @the-independent.com's round-up of books to look out for in 2026 (thank you, Daisy Lester!: www.independent.co.uk/extras/indyb...

It’s very fun that it’s the year of the horse. Imagine that. The creature of the year is an imaginary animal that does not exist 😌

'Tender, melancholic and evocative.' Lovely review of Elisa Shua Dusapin's new novel, THE OLD FIRE (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins). Thank you, SBK and @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! THE OLD FIRE is out later this month and you can pre-order here dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/the-old...

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"