Jimena Gorráez
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Spring 2026 Preview | Daunt Books Publishing
JANUARY Called By the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya by Anuradha Roy | Non-fiction | £11.99 | 15 January 2026 When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in Ranikhet, the...
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Really pleased to share the preview of our Spring 2026 list! New books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, an exciting essay anthology on islands, phenomenal non-fiction by Anuradha Roy and Fatima Bhutto, reissues to die for and a lot more.
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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
Daunt Books has acquired 13 books by five-time Booker-shortlistee Beryl Bainbridge 👇 #BookSky
Daunt Books acquires 13 books by Beryl Bainbridge
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October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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
'Compassionate and compelling.' @thetls.bsky.social
Serhy Yekelchyk reviews @victoriadonovan.bsky.social LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST.
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Serhy Yekelchyk reviews @victoriadonovan.bsky.social LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
A portal into past worlds
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 thrust the Donbas region onto the front pages of newspapers worldwide, yet the area remained frustratingly
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October 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
'Compassionate and compelling.' @thetls.bsky.social
Serhy Yekelchyk reviews @victoriadonovan.bsky.social LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST.
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Serhy Yekelchyk reviews @victoriadonovan.bsky.social LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
I can't wait for Monday's episode of BBC R4 A Good Read where our beloved (and scandalous) BEAR by Marian Engel will be discussed.
‘A bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom . . . the perfect escapist yet intellectual read.’ The Times
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‘A bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom . . . the perfect escapist yet intellectual read.’ The Times
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Sarah Waters and Walter Murch
Novelist Sarah Waters and film editor Walter Murch share favourite books.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I can't wait for Monday's episode of BBC R4 A Good Read where our beloved (and scandalous) BEAR by Marian Engel will be discussed.
‘A bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom . . . the perfect escapist yet intellectual read.’ The Times
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
‘A bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom . . . the perfect escapist yet intellectual read.’ The Times
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
If you're going to read a book in Spanish from a Latin American writer today, make sure it's MARCIANO by the great Nona Fernandez.
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Marciano - Nona Fernández - Penguin Club de Lectura
La nueva novela de Nona Fernández: la cinematográfica historia de Mauricio Hernández Norambuena. Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you're going to read a book in Spanish from a Latin American writer today, make sure it's MARCIANO by the great Nona Fernandez.
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It might be the end of the Booker journey for MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga but it has been a wonderful ride.
Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and publishers!
Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and publishers!
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It might be the end of the Booker journey for MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga but it has been a wonderful ride.
Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and publishers!
Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and publishers!
Really pleased to share the preview of our Spring 2026 list! New books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, an exciting essay anthology on islands, phenomenal non-fiction by Anuradha Roy and Fatima Bhutto, reissues to die for and a lot more.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/spring-2026-...
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/spring-2026-...
Spring 2026 Preview | Daunt Books Publishing
JANUARY Called By the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya by Anuradha Roy | Non-fiction | £11.99 | 15 January 2026 When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in Ranikhet, the...
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Really pleased to share the preview of our Spring 2026 list! New books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, an exciting essay anthology on islands, phenomenal non-fiction by Anuradha Roy and Fatima Bhutto, reissues to die for and a lot more.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/spring-2026-...
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/spring-2026-...
Manchester friends! Come say hello as I'd be taking part in this event at the @institutocervantes.bsky.social Manchester on Fri 26 September, 6pm. I'll be discussing the challenges and importance of publishing literature in translation from Spanish.
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Translating Hispanic Literatures in the UK: a conversation with publishers
Join us in celebrating International Translation Day 2025 with a conversation on publishing foreign literature in the UK
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September 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Manchester friends! Come say hello as I'd be taking part in this event at the @institutocervantes.bsky.social Manchester on Fri 26 September, 6pm. I'll be discussing the challenges and importance of publishing literature in translation from Spanish.
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Happy publication day to OTHER PEOPLE! Our fourth reissue by the dark and brilliant Celia Dale. Capturing adolescence in all its cruelty, told with Dale’s trademark wit and canny dissection of relationships, this is a compelling coming-of-age story.
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Other People | Daunt Books Publishing
Daunt Books Publishing is an independent publisher based in London. Founded in 2010, we grew out of Daunt Books, an independent chain of bookshops in London and the South-East. We publish the finest a...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Happy publication day to OTHER PEOPLE! Our fourth reissue by the dark and brilliant Celia Dale. Capturing adolescence in all its cruelty, told with Dale’s trademark wit and canny dissection of relationships, this is a compelling coming-of-age story.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/other-p...
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/other-p...
The love you're all giving to ⛵SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social is just phenomenal 🙌
Huge thanks to @catherinejarvis.bsky.social for making it an Editor's Pick for Marie Claire.
💫 'Just beautiful.'💫
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Huge thanks to @catherinejarvis.bsky.social for making it an Editor's Pick for Marie Claire.
💫 'Just beautiful.'💫
www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainmen...
Hot Books, Strange Tales — From Haunted Love to Literary Thrillers, Your August Reading Just Got Wild
Think twisted romance, dark glamour and high-concept plots
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August 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The love you're all giving to ⛵SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social is just phenomenal 🙌
Huge thanks to @catherinejarvis.bsky.social for making it an Editor's Pick for Marie Claire.
💫 'Just beautiful.'💫
www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainmen...
Huge thanks to @catherinejarvis.bsky.social for making it an Editor's Pick for Marie Claire.
💫 'Just beautiful.'💫
www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainmen...
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I am sat here at my laptop trying to write but these brave journalists are all I can think about:
Anas al-Sharif
Mohammed Qreiqeh
Ibrahim Zaher
Moamen Aliwa
Mohammed Noufal
The entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City, gone. Say their names.
Anas al-Sharif
Mohammed Qreiqeh
Ibrahim Zaher
Moamen Aliwa
Mohammed Noufal
The entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City, gone. Say their names.
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I am sat here at my laptop trying to write but these brave journalists are all I can think about:
Anas al-Sharif
Mohammed Qreiqeh
Ibrahim Zaher
Moamen Aliwa
Mohammed Noufal
The entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City, gone. Say their names.
Anas al-Sharif
Mohammed Qreiqeh
Ibrahim Zaher
Moamen Aliwa
Mohammed Noufal
The entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City, gone. Say their names.
Edinburgh Book Festival is in full swing! We're delighted to have the brilliant Elisa Levi (THAT'S ALL I KNOW, tr Christina MacSweeney) in conversation with Sara Mesa (UN AMOR) discussing Spain's literary scene. Two incredibly exciting authors, unmissable!
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Elisa Levi & Sara Mesa: Spain’s New Literary Horizons
From Fri 22 Aug - Discover two bold new voices from Spain, recently published in English for the first time. Writing in the tradition of the Spanish literary greats, Elisa Levi and Sara Mesa’s fiction...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Edinburgh Book Festival is in full swing! We're delighted to have the brilliant Elisa Levi (THAT'S ALL I KNOW, tr Christina MacSweeney) in conversation with Sara Mesa (UN AMOR) discussing Spain's literary scene. Two incredibly exciting authors, unmissable!
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
A brilliant review of Natalia Ginzburg's THE CITY AND THE HOUSE (tr Dick Davies) on @theartsdesk.bsky.social. Words by Hugh Barnes.
*Please note the review gives away key parts of the plot*
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*Please note the review gives away key parts of the plot*
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Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House review - a dying art
Many readers and writers think of epistolary novels as old-fashioned, just as letter writing itself can seem a bit quaint nowadays. The genre became popular during the 18th and 19th centuries followin...
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August 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A brilliant review of Natalia Ginzburg's THE CITY AND THE HOUSE (tr Dick Davies) on @theartsdesk.bsky.social. Words by Hugh Barnes.
*Please note the review gives away key parts of the plot*
theartsdesk.com/books/natali...
*Please note the review gives away key parts of the plot*
theartsdesk.com/books/natali...
Reposted by Jimena Gorráez
Today on the blog, a short story for #WITMonth 2025 “I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.” (Rudolph Valentino) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/08/03/i...
“I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.” (Rudolph Valentino)
I’m going through a bit of a reading slump at the moment, not a terrible one as I’m finding I can focus on my comfort reads, but I’m struggling with anything that needs more concentration. It’s ver…
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August 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today on the blog, a short story for #WITMonth 2025 “I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.” (Rudolph Valentino) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/08/03/i...
🎉Happy publication day to FALSE CALM: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GHOST TOWNS OF PATAGONIA by Maria Sonia Cristoff (tr Katherine Silver). A bold piece of non-fiction that documents her return to the area as she collects stories of the people that remain.
Perfect for readers of Islands of Abandonment.👌
Perfect for readers of Islands of Abandonment.👌
July 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🎉Happy publication day to FALSE CALM: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GHOST TOWNS OF PATAGONIA by Maria Sonia Cristoff (tr Katherine Silver). A bold piece of non-fiction that documents her return to the area as she collects stories of the people that remain.
Perfect for readers of Islands of Abandonment.👌
Perfect for readers of Islands of Abandonment.👌
I spy with my little eye @lidijahilje.bsky.social SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA⛵ in @hatchards.bsky.social (St Pancras) Fiction chart!
🙌Thank you to all of you wonderful booksellers championing this novel.
Find out more here: dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/slantin...
🙌Thank you to all of you wonderful booksellers championing this novel.
Find out more here: dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/slantin...
July 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I spy with my little eye @lidijahilje.bsky.social SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA⛵ in @hatchards.bsky.social (St Pancras) Fiction chart!
🙌Thank you to all of you wonderful booksellers championing this novel.
Find out more here: dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/slantin...
🙌Thank you to all of you wonderful booksellers championing this novel.
Find out more here: dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/slantin...
Misinterpretation in two words: Dark Horse🐎. I'll take it, thank you.
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Booker prize longlist 2025: our critic’s verdict
A quietly strong list includes novels by Claire Adam, Kiran Desai, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller and David Szalay
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July 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Misinterpretation in two words: Dark Horse🐎. I'll take it, thank you.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
And a big big cheer to the wonderful team at @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for their first Booker longlisting with Jonathan Buckley's ONE BOAT. HOORAY!
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One Boat | The Booker Prizes
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility
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July 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
And a big big cheer to the wonderful team at @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for their first Booker longlisting with Jonathan Buckley's ONE BOAT. HOORAY!
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🎉Over the moon to share that MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga has been longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize!
Thank you to all of you who read it and especially those who reviewed it @edelcoffey.bsky.social and @lucyjpop.bsky.social 💜
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Thank you to all of you who read it and especially those who reviewed it @edelcoffey.bsky.social and @lucyjpop.bsky.social 💜
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July 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🎉Over the moon to share that MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga has been longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize!
Thank you to all of you who read it and especially those who reviewed it @edelcoffey.bsky.social and @lucyjpop.bsky.social 💜
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Thank you to all of you who read it and especially those who reviewed it @edelcoffey.bsky.social and @lucyjpop.bsky.social 💜
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Remember that line in Matilda that says reading is like a holiday in your head? This article is all about that.
With thanks to Lucy Pearson for recommending @lidijahilje.bsky.social SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and Ginzburg's FAMILY AND BORGHESIA. 💫
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
With thanks to Lucy Pearson for recommending @lidijahilje.bsky.social SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and Ginzburg's FAMILY AND BORGHESIA. 💫
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
How to read like you’re on holiday - even when you’re back at home
Books feel richer, more immersive and more effortlessly page-turning when you are way, but it can be that way in the UK, too
inews.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Remember that line in Matilda that says reading is like a holiday in your head? This article is all about that.
With thanks to Lucy Pearson for recommending @lidijahilje.bsky.social SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and Ginzburg's FAMILY AND BORGHESIA. 💫
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
With thanks to Lucy Pearson for recommending @lidijahilje.bsky.social SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and Ginzburg's FAMILY AND BORGHESIA. 💫
inews.co.uk/culture/book...
I remember these as a child. THRILLED to see them coming back.
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Journey Under the Sea (Choose Your Own Adventure) by R. A. Montgomery
Buy Journey Under the Sea (Choose Your Own Adventure) by R. A. Montgomery from Daunt Books today. New Fiction, Non-Fiction books and Travel Guides available from Daunt Books. Worldwide shipping availa...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I remember these as a child. THRILLED to see them coming back.
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dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/summer-...
I've said it before but allow me to repeat myself. I ❤️ BBC R4's A GOOD READ📚 and I cannot wait to hear the discussion on our very own Vivian Gornick's THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY🗽on 4 August.
Remember, our edition has a brilliant foreword by @amykey.bsky.social Out now!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Remember, our edition has a brilliant foreword by @amykey.bsky.social Out now!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Rob Rinder and Juno Dawson
The barrister and the writer discuss books they feel passionate about.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I've said it before but allow me to repeat myself. I ❤️ BBC R4's A GOOD READ📚 and I cannot wait to hear the discussion on our very own Vivian Gornick's THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY🗽on 4 August.
Remember, our edition has a brilliant foreword by @amykey.bsky.social Out now!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Remember, our edition has a brilliant foreword by @amykey.bsky.social Out now!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Out on 14 August is SWIMMING STUDIES by Leanne Shapton. Our edition comes with a brand new introduction by Rita Bullwinkel, author of Headshot.
With colour illustrations by the author throughout, this is a beautiful work of art from a singular talent.
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With colour illustrations by the author throughout, this is a beautiful work of art from a singular talent.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/swimmin...
July 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Out on 14 August is SWIMMING STUDIES by Leanne Shapton. Our edition comes with a brand new introduction by Rita Bullwinkel, author of Headshot.
With colour illustrations by the author throughout, this is a beautiful work of art from a singular talent.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/swimmin...
With colour illustrations by the author throughout, this is a beautiful work of art from a singular talent.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/swimmin...
'Beautiful, lush and deeply human' Words by Dion Everett for @nbmagazine.bsky.social on @lidijahilje.bsky.social stunning debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. Out now!
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Slanting Towards the Sea, Lidija Hilje — nb. Magazine
Review by Dion Everett
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July 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
'Beautiful, lush and deeply human' Words by Dion Everett for @nbmagazine.bsky.social on @lidijahilje.bsky.social stunning debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. Out now!
www.nbmagazine.co.uk/editorialarc...
www.nbmagazine.co.uk/editorialarc...
To celebrate SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social here's a glowing review by Emily Goulding for @thespectator1828.bsky.social
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The tragedy of a life not lived: Slanting Towards the Sea, by Lidija Hilje reviewed
‘He leaned in to kiss me. And when he did, something inside me reoriented itself, my world softly tipping into his direction, as if he himself were the sea.’ This is the story of Ivona and Vlaho, one ...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
To celebrate SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social here's a glowing review by Emily Goulding for @thespectator1828.bsky.social
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Our latest book by Natalia Ginzburg 🏠The City and the House (tr Dick Davies) is brilliantly reviewed by Miranda France in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social
I think this could well be my favourite Ginzburg yet!
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I think this could well be my favourite Ginzburg yet!
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A soothing cruelty
While some authors strain for “elegant variation”, anxiously picking out overused words in a sentence or paragraph, Natalia Ginzburg espouses a unique
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July 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Our latest book by Natalia Ginzburg 🏠The City and the House (tr Dick Davies) is brilliantly reviewed by Miranda France in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social
I think this could well be my favourite Ginzburg yet!
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
I think this could well be my favourite Ginzburg yet!
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...