Daunt Books

A voice-driven, penetrating novel of the exploitation and alienation of the working class. In one strand, a young family bumps and scrapes through life. The hapless father balances demanding factory shiftwork, while the mother constantly prioritises... Lire la suite

A propulsive, bewitching novel about home and family, the ache of unrealised dreams and the quiet tragedy of unrequited love. Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are... Lire la suite

A singular achievement, Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes explores, with immense care, profound questions about loss, pain and beauty; private memory and public monument; art; complexity; and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a... Lire la suite

A woman leaves the man she lives with and moves to a low stone cottage in a university town. She joins an academic department and, high up in her office on the thirteenth floor, begins a research project on the poet Paul Celan. She knows nothing of... Lire la suite

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'Like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy.' -- Sunday Times Håkan Söderström is a man who has become a legend. Giant in size, rumoured to be bloodthirsty and fearless, he is known simply as... Lire la suite

'Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail.' -- New York Times 'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.' So begins Mary... Lire la suite

I have invented nothing, but memory weaves its own histories. These are travel stories, ranging in place and time. Some are memories of a re-imagined past, others more personal. From the first recorded performance of Hamlet (off the coast of Africa,... Lire la suite

Set over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole. One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for... Lire la suite

An enduring gem, Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain 'I remember... Lire la suite

The Isle of Youth journeys through lives mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed marooned on honeymoon in Patagonia, to an abandoned tourist trailing a troupe of Parisian acrobats, to a woman who travels to Antarctica to unpick the secrets... Lire la suite

Elisa is Gilles' wife and her devotion to him is passionate and all-consuming. Her daily life is permeated by thoughts of him - thoughts of his return from the factory, thoughts of his footsteps on the path as he arrives home each evening, when, in... Lire la suite

Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After ten years of war, Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Cassandra is now a prisoner, shackled outside the gates of Agamemnon's Mycenae.... Lire la suite

So there is no one to whom I can speak the words that most need to be spoken, about the events which most closely concern our family and what has happened to us; I have to keep them bottled up inside me and there are times when they threaten to... Lire la suite

Presently, on the sea-floor, I began to find lost things; to raise the moods that were mine when I was fourteen years old, sitting in this garden, writing my Anthology of Hates. I would begin there. Penelope Wells, precocious daughter of a poet, is... Lire la suite

Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of short stories. A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her... Lire la suite

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ – a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied,... Lire la suite

Spring, 1974. After twelve years abroad, Natàlia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona and her family. Change is in the air: revolution sexual, political and artistic is simmering. Franco may still be in power, but his death is only two years away. The... Lire la suite

Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness – larger than most national parks – which has been known since the... Lire la suite

In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters,... Lire la suite

'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker 'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times 'The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven't invented a thing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel... Lire la suite