David Hayden
@seventydys.bsky.social
The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting next year with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ and ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ with new introductions by Yiyun Li and A.K. Blakemore.
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting next year with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ and ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ with new introductions by Yiyun Li and A.K. Blakemore.
Let evil die
Wole Soyinka, 'I Anoint My Flesh'
Wole Soyinka, 'I Anoint My Flesh'
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Let evil die
Wole Soyinka, 'I Anoint My Flesh'
Wole Soyinka, 'I Anoint My Flesh'
Reposted by David Hayden
I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
June 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.
Submitted a novel to a fox at night on Stiffkey marsh, acceptance came at dawn by hedgehog. Publication on the windblown spume of a fast tide receding into the North Sea.
submitted a prose poem to the pothole nearest my apartment
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Submitted a novel to a fox at night on Stiffkey marsh, acceptance came at dawn by hedgehog. Publication on the windblown spume of a fast tide receding into the North Sea.
Reposted by David Hayden
RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
Edith Nesbit’s supernatural stories are witty, chilling, elegant and memorable. This collection could have been longer, as could the brief but excellent introduction by Naomi Alderman.
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Edith Nesbit’s supernatural stories are witty, chilling, elegant and memorable. This collection could have been longer, as could the brief but excellent introduction by Naomi Alderman.
‘Taints’, a short story @bansheepress.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
‘Taints’, a short story @bansheepress.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...
‘We never get away from our life. We never see ideas or freedom face to face.’
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Cezanne's Doubt', tr Dreyfus & Dreyfus: faculty.uml.edu/rinnis/cezan...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Cezanne's Doubt', tr Dreyfus & Dreyfus: faculty.uml.edu/rinnis/cezan...
faculty.uml.edu
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
‘We never get away from our life. We never see ideas or freedom face to face.’
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Cezanne's Doubt', tr Dreyfus & Dreyfus: faculty.uml.edu/rinnis/cezan...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Cezanne's Doubt', tr Dreyfus & Dreyfus: faculty.uml.edu/rinnis/cezan...
Reposted by David Hayden
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
Alive with beauty, sorrow, fear and mystery. If you want to read an exceptional novelist there’s always Mercè Rodoreda.
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Alive with beauty, sorrow, fear and mystery. If you want to read an exceptional novelist there’s always Mercè Rodoreda.
My short story ‘The Unspoken’ online @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/the-unspoken/
October 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My short story ‘The Unspoken’ online @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/the-unspoken/
The fine looking @literatureireland.bsky.social stand at Frankfurt @buchmesse.de.
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The fine looking @literatureireland.bsky.social stand at Frankfurt @buchmesse.de.
Dialectical jerks at the Adorno Gymnasium
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Dialectical jerks at the Adorno Gymnasium
1980, the kitchen porter era (Savoy Hotel, Blackpool)
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1980, the kitchen porter era (Savoy Hotel, Blackpool)
I had the great pleasure of editing Naomi Baker’s Voices of Thunder, her groundbreaking book on radical religious women in the 17th century, which arrives with these emphatic endorsements. Out today from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern
October 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I had the great pleasure of editing Naomi Baker’s Voices of Thunder, her groundbreaking book on radical religious women in the 17th century, which arrives with these emphatic endorsements. Out today from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern