Horrible to hear someone came close to being scammed by someone pretending to be us. We would never offer a publishing package in exchange for a fee. Please be vigilant! Scams are increasingly sophisticated.

So lovely seeing our latest trio in a line! Oh to be in ANY of those pictures for real right now. Our latest, Over the Water, came out just last week:

FRIDAY VIBES KICKED IN A DAY EARLY AT DAUNT, SEE CRUCIAL CORRECTION!! Take off those flipflops, fold up the deckchair and get back to WORK, Daunt

Standing by the window I heard it, while waiting for the turn. In hot light and chill air it was the crossing flow of even life, hurt in the mouth but exhausted with passion and joy - RIP J.H. Prynne

this is TOMORROW!

This year's anthology is on islands, and is out TOMORROW! It features a beautiful essay from @sineadgleeson.bsky.social, whose conversation with Douglas Stuart around publication of HAGSTONE was partly the inspiration for the theme. Here's a wonderful substack from her:

THIS SATURDAY!!!

Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Beloved Fatima!!

DREAMY DREAMY

Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

ahoy, landlubbers

!!! WHAT a kind message to start the day on, crikey 🧡🧡🧡

In May hear what it takes from @marigoldatkey.bsky.social to be an editor @dauntbookspub.bsky.social; from Sarah Dennis owner of indie @borzoibookshop.bsky.social; and what it took for Fatima Bhutto to break free from #coercivecontrol #memoir TICKETS: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Very much admired, among other virtues, how she created a profoundly recognisable sense of place without a lot of obvious signalling.

Bainbridge was a master. Great work from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.

Love that our older books continue to be championed:

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...

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.

not one of our own books but look at this lovely write-up, all of us who haven't read it clearly need to remedy that

a wave of welcome to @waystonebooks.bsky.social - a new indie bookshop on the Isle of Skye (😍), run by 'writers, community organisers and queer firefighters', as if they couldn't get any dreamier?!

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An excellent novel. Also being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social in the UK!

red frame + water +... no, the combining factor: three cracking books. JEAN out just this week, so very happy and grateful to see it in this trio!

The most wonderful review by Neil Bartlett for @theguardian.com's BOTD on Madeleine Dunnigan's '[It will] speak to anyone who can remember how glorious – and dangerous – it once felt to find yourself in possession of a fully functioning heart.' Out THURSDAY! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

😍😍😍 I wanted to choose just one non-daunt book to cheer on bar our own EARTH 7 but goddamn this stack is too good, help:

You must be mistaken Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr Barbara Bray

reprint of Hernan Diaz's Pultizer-finalist IN THE DISTANCE arriving at the warehouse tmrw, a book praised by the Sunday Times as ‘Like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy: an adventure story as well as a meditation on the meaning of home.’ cdauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/in-the-...

Any event at Bàrd Books is a good time but the Debut Nights are especially fun - a lovely way for debuts to kick their campaigns off, and for readers to hear from THE hottest new writers:

Fatima Bhutto is on the @theguardian.com's podcast with @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social, on surviving an abusive relationship while in the public eye. We publish her memoir THE HOUR OF THE WOLF on 26 Feb: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Srimoyee Bagchi for the Telegraph India on Anuradha Roy's CALLED BY THE HILLS is a really wonderful review - beautiful, thoughtful articulation of what makes this memoir so special: www.telegraphindia.com/amp/books/rh...

ICYMI: Fatima Bhutto was in this weekend's @theguardian.com, ahead of the publication of her memoir THE HOUR OF THE WOLF. A beautiful storyteller and person, her warmth and courage shines out:

Fatima Bhutto THE HOUR OF THE WOLF @dauntbookspub.bsky.social with us in May. General online booking from today www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile great article by @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social in yesterday's @theguardian.com #booksky www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

6 May Fatima Bhutto zooms in to talk about #TheHourOfTheWolf to @marigoldatkey.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social #booksky Festival tickets 1 Feb: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile 🐕 👇

Proofs are really fun because essentially we don't have to get approval from anyone. We just send the designers the copy and... give them free rein... these are two of our summer novels and couldn't be more different ALTHOUGH, mind you, both have masculinity and belonging at their heart

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

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.'

'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)

thought Mestra was yet another new imprint for a second there

Madeleine Dunnigan, author of Feb's debut JEAN, writing for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy on novels set in boarding schools: lithub.com/containment-...

NOOOOOOOO

Coincidentally, I had the honour to walk behind a beautiful ghost-horse of a borzoi just yesterday. Fatima Bhutto will be talking about The Hour of the Wolf over zoom on 06 May nb!

'well, ANYWAY' - come on, Atkey. No sloppy mistakes on the day, promise:

DREAM @thetimes.com review from @cecibrowning.bsky.social of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) - a pleasure to read. She GETS it!! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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...

TGI FRIDAY! Some bonus content from @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social of his interview with author of debut novel JEAN, Madeleine Dunnigan, and author @farah-ali.bsky.social

YES!!! This makes me so happy!! Come, fall in love with this wonderful book!! Thank you, @wearebookanista.bsky.social 🌎

This July, we publish @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social's DAD HAD A BAD DAY. Recently unemployed Ned spirals into an obsession with tennis, putting everything else in his life at risk. Darkly comic, increasingly unhinged, this is a brilliant exploration of sport and masculinity. Cover by Luke Bird.