Marigold Atkey
@marigoldatkey.bsky.social
Publisher at Daunt Books; she/her
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It’s very fun that it’s the year of the horse.
Imagine that. The creature of the year is an imaginary animal that does not exist 😌
Imagine that. The creature of the year is an imaginary animal that does not exist 😌
January 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
It’s very fun that it’s the year of the horse.
Imagine that. The creature of the year is an imaginary animal that does not exist 😌
Imagine that. The creature of the year is an imaginary animal that does not exist 😌
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'Tender, melancholic and evocative.' Lovely review of Elisa Shua Dusapin's new novel, THE OLD FIRE (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins). Thank you, SBK and @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! THE OLD FIRE is out later this month and you can pre-order here dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/the-old...
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
'Tender, melancholic and evocative.' Lovely review of Elisa Shua Dusapin's new novel, THE OLD FIRE (tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins). Thank you, SBK and @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! THE OLD FIRE is out later this month and you can pre-order here dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/the-old...
I've heard that Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where the Serpent Lives is *extraordinary* & Kenan Orhan has been on my Must Read list for a while, but so many exciting-sounding debuts here - hooray for genius translator & Good Egg Polly Barton in partic www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
‘Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar’: 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026
A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwife
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I've heard that Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where the Serpent Lives is *extraordinary* & Kenan Orhan has been on my Must Read list for a while, but so many exciting-sounding debuts here - hooray for genius translator & Good Egg Polly Barton in partic www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
JEAN is out in Feb. Set in a boarding school for troubled boys in the 1970s, it's a love story, a coming-of-age tale, and an exploration of what might spark someone to try to escape all that they know:
thank you, @ellacreamer.bsky.social, for incl Madeleine Dunnigan's JEAN in your @theguardian.com round-up of 2026 debut novels! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
‘Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar’: 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026
A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwife
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
JEAN is out in Feb. Set in a boarding school for troubled boys in the 1970s, it's a love story, a coming-of-age tale, and an exploration of what might spark someone to try to escape all that they know:
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December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Thanks to those who donated, they’re 1/5th to the goal of a new tent. They need 330 € more.
Thanks to everyone who supported the fundraiser for Ramzi’s brother’s eye surgery, which is today. Their tent, pictured here, was flooded in the recent winter storm in Gaza and now they are living with their uncle’s family, raising funds for a new tent. chuffed.org/project/1319...
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thanks to those who donated, they’re 1/5th to the goal of a new tent. They need 330 € more.
Ah! A Christmas blessing!! A submission! On the 18th of December! just what any editor wants at this time of year.
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ah! A Christmas blessing!! A submission! On the 18th of December! just what any editor wants at this time of year.
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Ooofft
It was the hour when snow goes blue and streetlights come on and a hare may pause on the tree line as still as a word in a book.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ooofft
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...
The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025
Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…
lithub.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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...
The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025
Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…
lithub.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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...
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loser behavior. check out this book about the guys from the original photo, who were actual tradesmen who knew skills besides con artistry
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
loser behavior. check out this book about the guys from the original photo, who were actual tradesmen who knew skills besides con artistry
Forever grateful to Max Porter for including her on a lockdown playlist (ahhh good times) for Faber - pure spine-tingling magic.
Obsessed with the voice of Lisa O’Neill, whose work I only discovered this week. The first song she plays here - Old Note - is just absolutely extraordinary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hMx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hMx...
Lisa O'Neill: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Forever grateful to Max Porter for including her on a lockdown playlist (ahhh good times) for Faber - pure spine-tingling magic.
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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.
December 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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.
what's key is to read the alt text
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
what's key is to read the alt text
I love this book SO MUCH - I've been banging on about it to friends and Team Daunt, thrilled I can finally bang on about it to everyone else. I felt it cracked my heart wide open and poured golden sunlight into it (a good thing):
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/
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I love this book SO MUCH - I've been banging on about it to friends and Team Daunt, thrilled I can finally bang on about it to everyone else. I felt it cracked my heart wide open and poured golden sunlight into it (a good thing):
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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
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
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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
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
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Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
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Buddo says you're nearly home & dry. He adds that it's Max Roach time over on Radio 3: "Give yersel' a treat!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Buddo says you're nearly home & dry. He adds that it's Max Roach time over on Radio 3: "Give yersel' a treat!"
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Thrilled that Claire Baglin's ON THE CLOCK (tr. Jordan Stump) is in @telegraph.co.uk's Greatest Books of 2025!! The Telegraph is consistently good at reviewing literature in translation and it SO APPRECIATED www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites from 2025, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thrilled that Claire Baglin's ON THE CLOCK (tr. Jordan Stump) is in @telegraph.co.uk's Greatest Books of 2025!! The Telegraph is consistently good at reviewing literature in translation and it SO APPRECIATED www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
just realised it won't be long before BEST COVERS OF THE YEAR round-ups, delicious, chomp chomp, I'll scrape up every crumb
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
just realised it won't be long before BEST COVERS OF THE YEAR round-ups, delicious, chomp chomp, I'll scrape up every crumb
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Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway.
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway.
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
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Once again they have deleted Lubna's account. She is less than $500 away from her goal. Can you please help her? I really dont know what else to do, can you commit to supporting someone regularly? Lubna is exhausted and donations have evaporated, she needs love and support
Donate to Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment, organized by Lubna Alajrami
Dear compassionate friends,
My name is Lubna Alajrami, an… Lubna Alajrami needs your support for Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment
www.gofundme.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Once again they have deleted Lubna's account. She is less than $500 away from her goal. Can you please help her? I really dont know what else to do, can you commit to supporting someone regularly? Lubna is exhausted and donations have evaporated, she needs love and support
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The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
Longshot, but does anyone know how we should get this bit of paper out of the printer? We think we need to call a screwdriver into service but maybe there's an easier way?!
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Longshot, but does anyone know how we should get this bit of paper out of the printer? We think we need to call a screwdriver into service but maybe there's an easier way?!