Marigold Atkey
@marigoldatkey.bsky.social
Publisher at Daunt Books; she/her
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This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
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Requesting from libraries helps tell them what readers want, too, so helps them spend their budget more accurately. And, my librarians tell me, requests helps them advocate for a higher budget. Because 'look at all these books we didn't have that people wanted!'
February 17, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Requesting from libraries helps tell them what readers want, too, so helps them spend their budget more accurately. And, my librarians tell me, requests helps them advocate for a higher budget. Because 'look at all these books we didn't have that people wanted!'
the pushing-women thing is SO ODD. I've had it happen to me twice (& I'm white, middle-aged & not pretty, so am usually fairly invisible): both times it was so startling & aggressive. It's a mild form of what's in this piece but it's worrying to extrapolate from: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson
Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’s, says Lucy Pasha-Robinson, a Guardian assistant Opinion editor
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:37 AM
the pushing-women thing is SO ODD. I've had it happen to me twice (& I'm white, middle-aged & not pretty, so am usually fairly invisible): both times it was so startling & aggressive. It's a mild form of what's in this piece but it's worrying to extrapolate from: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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whoops, missed the title but maybe that was a cunning tactic to get you to click into AND READ this most fabulous of reviews?! Couldn't ask for a better one, tbh:
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 3:33 PM
whoops, missed the title but maybe that was a cunning tactic to get you to click into AND READ this most fabulous of reviews?! Couldn't ask for a better one, tbh:
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How can the other parties not beat this? I mean, seriously? These people should be shouted down in roars of laughter the minute they say this. Just toxic. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.
www.bigissue.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
How can the other parties not beat this? I mean, seriously? These people should be shouted down in roars of laughter the minute they say this. Just toxic. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
oh nooo Fatima is talking about a really heartbreaking moment in THE HOUR OF THE WOLF, a small, lovely moment of kindness from a stranger providing such a contrast to the man's persistent cruelty: 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 5:04 PM
oh nooo Fatima is talking about a really heartbreaking moment in THE HOUR OF THE WOLF, a small, lovely moment of kindness from a stranger providing such a contrast to the man's persistent cruelty: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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 4:58 PM
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!
Longing to listen to this - I adore Fatima, she's so smart, so warm, and pairs vulnerability and strength so beautifully in her writing:
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 4:45 PM
Longing to listen to this - I adore Fatima, she's so smart, so warm, and pairs vulnerability and strength so beautifully in her writing:
LOVE emerging from my burrow to find this Bainbridge Appreciation afoot!!
Reading lots of Beryl Bainbridge at the moment. So funny and dark and good at presenting inner v outer life and the turbulence between folk. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William, Injury Time, The Birthday Boys (though the last less funny than others)... you can't go wrong really.
January 30, 2026 at 4:57 PM
LOVE emerging from my burrow to find this Bainbridge Appreciation afoot!!
Deeply worrying. I saw only the other day that I'd missed protests against Homerton hospital entering a deal with them. Palantir supply technology to the IDF & ICE: we must resist their coming anywhere near our data & our lives. Grim, yet wholly unsurprising, that our gov is so tangled up with them:
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.
It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Deeply worrying. I saw only the other day that I'd missed protests against Homerton hospital entering a deal with them. Palantir supply technology to the IDF & ICE: we must resist their coming anywhere near our data & our lives. Grim, yet wholly unsurprising, that our gov is so tangled up with them:
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Good morning! I'm not remotely connected to this but it seems like a banging job so somebody cool please get it, thank you - Schools Engagement Lead, Children’s Booker Prize jobs.theguardian.com/job/10021632...
Schools Engagement Lead, Children’s Booker Prize - UK-based hybrid with London office attendance job with BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDATION | 10021632
Lead school engagement strategy for the Children’s Booker Prize, fostering a love of reading with hybrid UK work and growth opportunities.
jobs.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)
![A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sva5ad6pbtkgrdrqyej2fe2f/bafkreiakf6dkikkcb3djpbedhjttbsh7fmvfm5inximofh5rviegccmkdy@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)
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Looking forward to our May event with you @marigoldatkey.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social and #author Fatima Bhutto #booksky #IndependentAlliance Festival general booking opens 1 Feb
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Looking forward to our May event with you @marigoldatkey.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social and #author Fatima Bhutto #booksky #IndependentAlliance Festival general booking opens 1 Feb
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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'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)
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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.'
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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':
An honour to be in the company of the likes of Fitzcarraldo, Faber and Canongate, and to be working alongside so many kindred spirits:
For the second consecutive year, the Independent Alliance hit a record level with its £95.1m sold through NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market in 2025, putting the Faber-led sales collective ahead of a Big Four group in the BookScan publishers league table 👇 #BookSky
Review of the Year: Publishers – United front: Independent Alliance hits new heights
ebx.sh
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 AM
An honour to be in the company of the likes of Fitzcarraldo, Faber and Canongate, and to be working alongside so many kindred spirits:
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To all that object to us pointing out the fact that Israel is a goddamned apartheid state... now do you see it?
Israel’s parliament will be voting shortly on a law that would permit the death penalty for Palestinians only.
If settlers attack a Palestinian and they fight back, they can be hanged in 90 days.
If settlers attack a Palestinian and they fight back, they can be hanged in 90 days.
January 25, 2026 at 11:42 AM
To all that object to us pointing out the fact that Israel is a goddamned apartheid state... now do you see it?
our wonderful debut novelist Madeleine Dunnigan ('JEAN' is out NEXT MONTH!!) has written a piece in praise of the boarding-school novel - find it here chez @lithub.com.web.brid.gy 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 2:57 PM
our wonderful debut novelist Madeleine Dunnigan ('JEAN' is out NEXT MONTH!!) has written a piece in praise of the boarding-school novel - find it here chez @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/containment-...
I actually DO donate to Wikipedia now and again and I love that it's the work of this invisible unpaid army of geeks and enthusiasts and experts. This is so disappointing:
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 5:58 PM
I actually DO donate to Wikipedia now and again and I love that it's the work of this invisible unpaid army of geeks and enthusiasts and experts. This is so disappointing:
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 5:53 PM
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:
one applicant thinks they could bring a lot to Faber Children's. Good for them!!
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
one applicant thinks they could bring a lot to Faber Children's. Good for them!!
SCREAMING at the number of applicants to our editor job only sending in their cv. READ THE POST. Ye godddds.
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
SCREAMING at the number of applicants to our editor job only sending in their cv. READ THE POST. Ye godddds.
those of these I've read, I love, so I must clearly soon read those I haven't:
An oft-neglected format in commercial publishing, the novella offers the interior world of a novel with the added advantage of brevity.
11 Transportive Novellas You Can Read in One Sitting - Electric Literature
Start your reading year off right with some of the best short novels from the last decade
buff.ly
January 9, 2026 at 10:46 AM
those of these I've read, I love, so I must clearly soon read those I haven't: