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From Dinah Brooke, the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady, a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In a league with the best of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler—and closing the coffin for good on poor old Bram Stoker—Stainless is the final word on fangs, hangovers, and heartbreak.
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
By turns a poetic epic, a ghost story, a historical saga, and a chilling dystopian fable, Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie is a unique and uniquely American fusion of myth and hard-bitten reality an erotic, horrifying, and even hopeful reckoning with centuries of injustice.
September 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Readers in the DMV! Join us at @peoplesbooktakoma.com this Sunday for a conversation with Carolivia Herron, author of THEREAFTER JOHNNIE, a genre-defying novel that is by turns a poetic epic, a ghost story, a historical saga, and a chilling dystopian fable. RSVP for free:
Carolivia Herron for Thereafter Johnnie
The Snowdon family stands as a pinnacle of Black excellence in Washington, D.C.: educated, affluent, and influential. John Christopher, the patriarch, is revered by his medical students at Howard U…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Wickedly wonderful. Not kidding about the Spark and Waugh vibes.
From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and lofty pretensions” (The Telegraph). THE UNSPEAKABLE SKIPTON is available now on our website and everywhere books are sold.
The Unspeakable Skipton — McNALLY EDITIONS
Pamela Hansford Johnson Foreword by Michael Dirda From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of li...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"The word 'heretic' has still about it an emotional thrill—a glow reflected, it may be, from the fires at Smithfield, the ardours of those who were burnt at the stake for love of an idea."
September 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A lazy Saturday afternoon reading the newly rereleased The Unspeakable Skipton by Pamela Hansford Johnson. With a foreword by Michael Dirda. Not a single @mcnallyeditions.com release has disappointed so I have high hopes for this one as well.
September 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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So honored to host the very talented Carolivia Herron at People's Book at 2pm on Sunday 9/28. Read about why this DC classic is getting reissued with @mcnallyeditions.com!

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Why a Lost DC Novel Is Getting New Attention
Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie is being reissued by McNally Editions.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“We liked him for a lot of reasons. Some liked him because they were afraid of him, others because they admired him and still others because they hated him. But I think most were drawn to him because of his luck. You could not help wondering how a fellow could have such luck.“
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and lofty pretensions” (The Telegraph). THE UNSPEAKABLE SKIPTON is available now on our website and everywhere books are sold.
The Unspeakable Skipton — McNALLY EDITIONS
Pamela Hansford Johnson Foreword by Michael Dirda From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of li...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones is neither a kind nor a comforting book, but it is a good one, wry, caustic and wise about the young, doomed American male.”—Matthew Keeley, @washingtonpost.com
Review | An influential western gets its spotlight after 70 years
Charles Neider’s “The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones” is a neglected classic about hardened characters in 1880s California.
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August 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Charles Neider’s The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones— the 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy—is back in print today! Get your copy on our website and everywhere books are sold.
The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones — McNALLY EDITIONS
Charles Neider Foreword by Will Oldham The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarth...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife chronicles the friendships, one-night stands, and misadventures of Patricia, a twenty-something divorcée in Jazz Age New York.

RSVP to join us on August 14th for a conversation about this unforgettable novel between writer Iva Dixit and NYT Books editor Joumana Khatib.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Las Vegas: a circus of human misery turned comedy; a cacophony of grotesque utterances, self-soothing repetition, and relentless hope. This is what Dunne writes best.”

Stephanie Danler’s Foreword to Vegas by John Gregory Dunne is live now on our new Substack!
A Circus of Human Misery Turned Comedy
Stephanie Danler on John Gregory Dunne’s sublimely sleazy memoir of a breakdown in Las Vegas—and the marital mythology that shadows it
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August 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Join us and Ama Kwarteng on Monday (7/21) at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn to discuss Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer! A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion, it shocked critics in 1958 with its “feminine rage” (New York Times). RSVP on the MJ website!
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July 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Precise, enigmatic, and suspenseful, Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag is a taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta). It is now available on our website, in McNally Jackson stores, and everywhere books are sold.
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Extremely important announcement from our Associate Publisher Nathan Rostron, who is reporting live from our NYC warehouse: RENT BOY and WINTER LOVE are back in stock on our website! Get your copies now before they sell out again!
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Thrilled to have Todd Grimson’s Stainless included in @literaryhub.bsky.social’s 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025!
Our 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025
Lit Hub’s list of the most anticipated books of the second half of the year includes many genre titles, but, one might argue, not enough. What can I say, I’m an excitable boy, still in …
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July 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A Post from the Past. WINTER LOVE by Han Suyin, a stylish, elegantly written novel of doomed love set in 1940s London. Published by @mcnallyeditions.com.
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June 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Join us this week at two events in celebration of the reissue of John Gregory Dunne's Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season. Tomorrow, meet us at Anais for a launch party with Stephanie Danler, who wrote the introduction to our new edition.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We mourn the loss of the great Edmund White, "the godfather of queer lit" (Chicago Tribune) and "grandee of the New York literary world" (NYT), whose more than 30 works of fiction and non-fiction that gorgeously and unapologetically chronicled gay life.
June 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Started this AM. Rebecca West’s account of the 1945 trial of William Joyce, the Brooklyn born, Irish raised Black & Tan fellow traveller & English passport holder best known for propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany, aka Lord Haw Haw. Another beautiful @mcnallyeditions.com rerelease.
May 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“A work of art as well as a fount of tantalizing gossip.” —Michael Scammell
The Dazzling Paget Sisters: The English Twins Who Captivated Literary Europe — McNALLY EDITIONS
Ariane Bankes For fans of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love , this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: “devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual curren...
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May 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM