An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

Marina Kemp: 'I thought The Old Fire was extraordinary. Shua Dusapin combines acuity and depth, with straight-shooting sentences that belie their profound emotional complexity. This is a subtle, propulsive, immensely powerful novel.' Thank you, Marina!! The Old Fire is out in January

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.’

‘Entrancing, consoling, humorous and wise, CALLED BY THE HILLS made me melancholy for a place I have never visited, homesick for a house and garden I've never known and fondly attached to people I've never encountered. I felt as if I held the Himalayas in my hands while I read it.’ Chloe Dalton

The finest response I've seen so far.

After loving 3 of her novellas, I started this 408 pg #NataliaGinzburg novel All Our Yesterdays, spanning the war years in northern Italy. Utterly captivating, it follows 2 families that live opposite each other. I never wanted it to end. A brilliant original work of observation and community.

Another reason to read Natalia Ginzburg’s brilliant collection of essays, THE LITTLE VIRTUES (tr. Dick Davis), published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #WITMonth 💙📚 #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/t...

For anyone interested in knowing more about the Donbas (the part of Ukraine Trump is attempting to give Putin), its history, culture, ecology, and people, may I recommend my friend @victoriadonovan.bsky.social's wonderful book, LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

The new Elisa Shua Dusapin, author of Winter in Sokcho and Vladivostok Circus, is 'The Old Fire' (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins), coming in Jan 2026 from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. Yes please.

This book about the obscenity trail of Lady Chatterley’s Lover from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social was a delight.

Get to this if you can - really enjoyed this book!

Slanting Towards the Sea is an Editor’s Pick for Marie Claire! So thankful for this amazing review by Catherine Jarvie! 💕 And forever grateful for the best publicist, @jimenagorraez.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍

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171. Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga Book #12 on the @thebookerprizes.com longlist - an absorbing and increasingly unsettling novel exploring compassion fatigue and alienation. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

📣Friends and fans of Alice Chadwick's DARK LIKE UNDER! Join us at Marlborough Lit Fest for this very special event celebrating Alice and Tuyên Đỗ’s debut novels. 🗓️Sun 28 Sept, 11:30am 📍St Peter's Church, Marlborough, SN8 1HQ 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/marlboroughl...

★★★★ #NataliaGinzburg THE CITY AND THE HOUSE - In our era of emails and social media, is the epistolary novel a dying art? Hugh Barnes on Ginzburg's 1984 work, rendered in polyphonic English by Dick Davis, as conjuring trick - republished @dauntbookspub.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/books/natali...

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

Congratulations to Ledia Xhoga! Her novel MISINTERPRETATION is on the Booker longlist!!

Congrats to all those longlisted for the #BookerPrize2025, including IPG member @faberbooks.bsky.social leading the way with three books picked and fellow independents @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 🥳 #booksky #publishing

Desk editors are not optional. They’re at the heart of good publishing, says Katy Archer, Managing editor at Hodder and Stoughton 👇

I spy with my little eye...

'It is the people rather than the journey that make False Calm worth reading.' - thank you, @grantrintoul.bsky.social, for this review!! FALST CALM is out this coming Thursday:

Hugely excited to share that on 4 August, BBC R4 A GOOD READ will be discussing our beloved THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick (intro by @amykey.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Help @bookhaus.bsky.social - Bristol's radical home - survive and thrive !! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

Publishers outside of the UK - there is funding available to you for translating the works of Scottish writers! Applications are now open - deadline 18th August. #BookSky #Translation #Publishing www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...

the sun is taking a little holiday, it seems, so why not head to Croatia through @lidijahilje.bsky.social's writing? no suncream necessary:

YES:

Enjoying these from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and @scratchbooks.bsky.social 🌓Joe Brainard - ‘I remember peach coloured evenings just before dark’

BRB, booking a holiday in Helsinki:

Happy publication day to @lidijahilje.bsky.social and her stunning debut novel SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. It’s a beautiful book about love, family and long kept secrets set against the backdrop of an emerging Croatia, which almost feels like a character in itself. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

TODAY!!! 1 p.m.!!

arrrrgh

People of Peckham! Mina Holland is in conversation with Vida Adamczewski tomorrow (Wed 16) at lovely Review Bookshop about her memoir LIFEBLOOD. 7pm, £5 - and that incl a free drink?! Too good!

Books I read in June. Gathering the books for the picture, I realised it's all indie presses, which always leads to a great reading month ✨ @saqibooks.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #PeirenePress @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #BooksInTranslation

Wonderful review of Nona Fernández's THE TWILIGHT ZONE (tr. Natasha Wimmer) (which I still think should've got a Booker longlist but what the heck do I know grumble grumble)

"Empathy and compassion require a clear mind. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, changing your skin, adopting a new face: these are all acts of genuine intelligence." All quotes from THE TWILIGHT ZONE by Nona Fernández. Published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

​When I first read this years ago, it evoked many thoughts about language, memory, subjectivity. But it was the formal risks it took that stayed with me, that incantatory repetition and I remember (sorry) thinking, "Is this allowed?", Can you write a book this way?" Great to see it reissued.

LOVE this kind of book, so happy I REMEMBER is one of them for so many of you:

Joe Brainard’s ‘I Remember’ (1970-1975) is a small book that is immense inside, not least because of the way it—generously, wittily, companionably—opens up the reader to their own worlds of memory and feeling. There’s no such thing as an everybody book, but this is one. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.

Another fan of I REMEMBER (another writer, too)!

One for the Swifties: JoAnna Novak for the @parisreview.bsky.social on Taylor Swift and Joe Brainard's 'I Remember' (which we publish TMRW!!!): www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/11...

PUBLISHING INSIGHTS DAY TICKET SALES ENDING SOON! 🎟️🔥 Sign up so you don't miss out on 👇 🎨Cover Design w/ David Pearson 📚Starting a Press w/ @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social 🔊 Industry talks from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, @northodoxpress.bsky.social & more! 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

this is actually a line cut from Fleabag s2 🙏

delightful piece by Klara Feenstra on MFK Fisher's THE GASTRONOMICAL ME @literaryhub.bsky.social ('the descriptions... stay humming in your chest... food is mythic—as close to pure sensation as one can get. Meals are little electric shocks that wake one up to oneself.') lithub.com/fidelity-to-...

Lovely review in today's @telegraphnews.bsky.social of Joe Brainard's 'astonishing' I REMEMBER: 'a relentlessly specific time-capsule of a book, which bizarrely, movingly, seems to slip the confines of time' www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

'a landmark work for so many memoirists'!! Love this from Adelle, author of BASE NOTES: THE SCENTS OF A LIFE, on Joe Brainard's I REMEMBER:

My review of Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga for @theobserveruk.bsky.social NewReview - a nuanced exploration of communication failures, blurred boundaries and the emotional cost of unchecked altruism. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

❤️❤️ love hearing how many people have felt inspired by I Remember to create their own - alone or with others ❤️❤️

Joe Brainard was a pop artist (Jonathan Anderson a fan of his collages), and it's easy to see the artist's eye at work in his beautiful, evocative writing: