We are looking to recruit a Rights & Contracts Assistant to provide administrative support to ensure the smooth running of the Rights and Contracts departments. This is an exciting opportunity to launch your publishing career. faber.co.uk/careers/rights-contracts-assistant/

Really exciting news - Two Lines Press publish amazing stuff

Our wonderful debut novelist Madeleine Dunnigan is on the Rippling Pages podcast with @farah-ali.bsky.social . I'm saving to listen to this weekend - I know it'll be a treat:

HEAVEN. If any of you are looking for a sunlight- and delight-filled novel over Christmas, you couldn't go far wrong with this (I bet you've all read it before but you never know)

OUTRAGEOUS stack of bangers!! Good *lord*. Honoured to see so many of our titles here - the company they are keeping is quite something. Particularly lovely to see LIFE WITH A STAR here, one that continues to tick along nicely but deserves many more readers:

THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY 'captures the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of this vibrant metropolis [NYC] in sharp, insightful prose ... Gornick is a delightful companion – smart, curious and ever-observant. If, like me, you enjoy exploring cities on foot... you will likely love this one.'

Searchlight Sets Taika Waititi To Direct Deb Olin Unferth Novel ‘Barn 8’ For Film deadline.com/2025/12/sear...

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...

@debolinunferth.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social !!!

'Her valley is full of small details and quiet patterns, revealing the mountains as they are and the communities that anchor them in compassion and kindness.' Lovely review of Anuradha Roy's CALLED BY THE HILLS, which we publish in the UK in January:

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.

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

We will do any amount of self-harm to avoid seeing what our real problems are

Thrilled to announce that in July 2026, we are publishing the magical EARTH 7 by Deb Olin Unferth. A love story set against both a love letter to planet Earth, and a portrait of its slow demise, EARTH 7 is a novel for our times, and for all times dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/earth-7/

Gotta try and chisel a little time out of my packed masters reading life so I can dive into these thanks to @jimenagorraez.bsky.social and @dauntbookspub.bsky.social besties. They know me so well.

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

BAIT by Eugenia Ladra (translator: Miriam Tobin) coming in 2026 from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social is absolutely terrific. Thomas Hardy vibes. It just gets stronger as it goes along. The author has kept elements to a minimum, and marshalled them brilliantly.

Another excellent reissue by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social by Celia Dale. Queen of suburban English noir.

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for sending early copies of two Beryl Bainbridge novels, being reissued next year. Reading "An Awfully Big Adventure" love the way she does it! straight into the action use a REALLY well-turned sentence to ADVANCE the narrative & save yourself a whole paragraph!

"Stella lounged against a cocktail cabinet whose glass frontage was engraved with the outline of a naked woman. I'm not going to be cowed, she thought. Not by nipples." Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!

Congrats to everyone on the long list! ✨ Am especially proud of my pal Kevin Gerry Dunn, translator of HUNGRY FOR WHAT by Maria Bastarós ( @dauntbookspub.bsky.social). Go team! 👏

Oh my god stop the bus! Look what just came through the door! A thousand thank yous to the magnificent @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and esp @marigoldatkey.bsky.social!

Little stilettos of truth entering you and you never know they’ve punctured you emotionally till the laughter stops.

Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems

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...

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...