HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY, Rita Bullwinkel !! Her novel HEADSHOT has been winning hearts left, right and centre - now it's time for her stories to step into the spotlight and unsettle some souls, disturb some dreams, quicken some heartbeats:

'an outstanding novel. I’ve been longing for years for it to be translated. It is one of the finest books in modern Catalan fiction.' !! Wonderful, thoughtful review of Montserrat Roig's THE TIME OF CHERRIES (tr. Julia Sanches):

Congratulations to all longlisted (we are feasting!!) for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, but especially to our wonderful Scholastique Mukasonga, whose novel KIBOGO, translated beautifully by Mark Polizzotti, is one of those here:

Thank you so much DauntBooksPublishing!! Can’t wait to get into this!!!

This is a brilliant list of books curated by the great Amy Key💙
So nice to see Idra Novey's TAKE WHAT YOU NEED and Kathryn Scanlan 's KICK THE LATCH in such great company.
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Should be seeing Olivia Rodrigo tonight 😭 but am instead reading this stunning book by Griffin Hansbury before a trip to the cinema to see LOVE LIES BLEEDING

‘Reading is a creative act and we all bring something different to what we read.’ This and more happened at our April meet where we discussed Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Vladivostok Circus with Aneesa Abbas Higgins.🎡
Thank you to Instituto Federal Inteligência Investigação and to all the readers who joined us.🤹
See you in May!

DauntBooksPublishing AND Felicity Cloake wrote the foreword 😍 And if you need more convincing, here's me gushing about it too... bookerthanyou.blogspot.com/2023/11/consid…

Have you discovered MFK Fisher yet? What a treat you're in for if not. Perhaps start with Consider the Oyster if not, because as Vera Sugar v.kindly says, it's a real beauty:

🏞️The latest RP episode went live last week with Marchelle Farrell

From the trickle of a stream in Marchelle’s garden to a transatlantic journey into her childhood.

Marchelle’s work connects the personal and the global in deft fashion (@DauntBooksPub)

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blushing but also, yes, resharing, because look at these two wonderful books, how lucky we are:

'‘Some Strange Music Draws Me In’ is an incredibly rich and illuminating coming of age story . . . deeply humane, warm and funny.'
A brilliant review by Rob Meddes in the latest edition of Crack Magazine
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'It's one of the best books I've read this year.' Jessie Thompson on Rita Bullwinkel's HEADSHOT🥊
Thank you.

Happy Sunday! Look at all the fantastic new books that made their way to the shop this week. What book has been keeping you company in April so far? ☀️

around 8.35ish, Griffin Hansbury's SOME STRANGE MUSIC DRAWS ME IN features, but honestly, this is a great distillation of upcoming titles, watch the whole thing, go on:

.Rita Bullwinkel's HEADSHOT came out in March & we are *so* excited that in May, we publish her collection of short stories, the brilliant BELLY UP. Dark, sharp-edged, slithering with strangeness, yet alway tied to a recognisable reality, they explore the human condition:

Once again, DauntBooksPublishing giving us what we really want. Excited for this one.

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Patti Smith! The 1980s! Coming-of-age! What's not to love?! SOME STRANGE STRANGE MUSIC draws me in publishes today at DauntBooksPublishing and you will all fall in love with its protagonist, Mel 💜