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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...
Jean by Madeleine Dunnigan review – sex and teenage secrets
Queer self-discovery drives this powerful coming-of-age debut set in a bohemian 1970s school
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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...
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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...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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...
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:
Here’s some more 2026 books that I’m looking forward to this year
👀 What have you got your eye on?
👀 What have you got your eye on?
February 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
😍😍😍 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:
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You must be mistaken
Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr Barbara Bray
Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr Barbara Bray
February 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
You must be mistaken
Marguerite Duras, from 'The Malady of Death', tr Barbara Bray
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-...
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February 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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:
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!
February 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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...
Fatima Bhutto on secrets, lies and surviving coercive control – podcast
The Pakistani writer on enduring an abusive relationship in the public eye, and how she broke free
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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...
Rhythms of mountain time
The memory of Majumdar’s writing makes its presence felt in Anuradha Roy’s 'Called by the Hills', even before she is mentioned by the author
www.telegraphindia.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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:
‘Until I thought, what if I just tell the truth? And then it fell out of me - it didn’t even pour, it fell.’ Fatima Bhutto on her remarkable new memoir www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
Fatima Bhutto on her abusive relationship: ‘I thought it could never happen to me’
Fifteen years after her explosive memoir of growing up in Pakistan’s ruling political dynasty, the author has written a devastating account of the abuse she has since endured. She talks about a life o...
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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:
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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...
Meanwhile great article by @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social in yesterday's @theguardian.com #booksky www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Fatima Bhutto on her abusive relationship: ‘I thought it could never happen to me’
Fifteen years after her explosive memoir of growing up in Pakistan’s ruling political dynasty, the author has written a devastating account of the abuse she has since endured. She talks about a life o...
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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...
Meanwhile great article by @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social in yesterday's @theguardian.com #booksky www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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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 🐕 👇
This is the most beautiful thing you'll read today.
And remember, THE HOUR OF THE WOLF by Fatima Bhutto is out 26 Feb.
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/fatima...
And remember, THE HOUR OF THE WOLF by Fatima Bhutto is out 26 Feb.
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/fatima...
Fatima Bhutto communes with Goya’s drowning dog
Are we alone in the universe? Goya’s late, great painting of a dog in distress spoke to Fatima Bhutto at a challenging moment in her life
www.worldofinteriors.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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
Loving these proof covers from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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':
Ashton Politanoff’s ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’ is a sharp-etched, unrelenting portrait of a man’s search for purpose by returning to his juvenile moment of promise as a tennis champion. A compelling examination of destructive fatherhoods and their replication across generations. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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.'
'The uplifting finale begs the question of what valuable lessons we could all learn from respecting, rather than ransacking, the natural world.'
Today in the ARB: @JaneWBooks reviews “The Hour of the Wolf: A Memoir” by Fatima Bhutto @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-hour-of-...
“The Hour of the Wolf” by Fatima Bhutto
Author and journalist Fatima Bhutto reflects on how caring for her pet dog shed light on her own relationships in this tender and insightful memoir of a doomed love affair.
asianreviewofbooks.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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.'
'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)
I wrote two fiction reviews that published this weekend - on Elisa Shua Dusapin's The Old Fire @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for the TLS and Makenna Goodman's Helen of Nowhere @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for the FT weekend. Very different books but both immensely rewarding reads!
January 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
'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
Bloomsbury is set to publish a new short story from The Song of Achilles author Madeline Miller. Mestra will publish on 26th September 2026 👇 #BookSky
Bloomsbury to publish new short story from Madeline Miller
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January 23, 2026 at 12:47 PM
thought Mestra was yet another new imprint for a second there
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Madeleine Dunnigan, author of Feb's debut JEAN, writing for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy on novels set in boarding schools: lithub.com/containment-...
Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel
The first half of Alice Winn’s bestselling In Memoriam is set at Preshute, an English boys’ boarding school in the early twentieth century. It is here, in the idyllic countryside, where the boys di…
lithub.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Madeleine Dunnigan, author of Feb's debut JEAN, writing for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy on novels set in boarding schools: lithub.com/containment-...
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NOOOOOOOO
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others | TechCrunch
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.
techcrunch.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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!
Thank you Jimena @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for 2026 Fest copy of #TheHouroftheWolf. Looking forward to welcoming @marigoldatkey.bsky.social to #Cotswolds 6 May for Zoom with Fatima Bhutto + Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social General booking 1 Feb
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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:
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:
Thank you Jimena @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for 2026 Fest copy of #TheHouroftheWolf. Looking forward to welcoming @marigoldatkey.bsky.social to #Cotswolds 6 May for Zoom with Fatima Bhutto + Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social General booking 1 Feb
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
'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...
What do you get if you cross the Grimms’ fairytales with an Ann Patchett novel?
In The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Dusapin two sisters reunite to clear out their father’s dilapidated house –but then things take a weird turn
www.thetimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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...
Sarah Moss: ‘I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre’
The author on the trouble with the Brönte novels, what she gained from reading John Updike and Martin Amis – and the brilliance of Barbara Pym
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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
Happy new year!
I’ve released some more bonus content from this episode. I couldn’t resist!
It features more of the conversation between @farah-ali.bsky.social and Madeleine on the books that inspired them!
How could you not want more of this!
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I’ve released some more bonus content from this episode. I couldn’t resist!
It features more of the conversation between @farah-ali.bsky.social and Madeleine on the books that inspired them!
How could you not want more of this!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
January 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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 🌎
Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth is out in July - pre-order for a treat at 2026’s halfway mark.
A sci fi romantic mystery about a mother, a daughter and Earth’s sand timer. It’s full of wisdom about us and our precious planet - and it is a masterpiece @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
#booksky 💙📚 #bookblogger
A sci fi romantic mystery about a mother, a daughter and Earth’s sand timer. It’s full of wisdom about us and our precious planet - and it is a masterpiece @dauntbookspub.bsky.social
#booksky 💙📚 #bookblogger
January 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
YES!!! This makes me so happy!! Come, fall in love with this wonderful book!! Thank you, @wearebookanista.bsky.social 🌎