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Daunt Books Festival 2020 | Thursday 19th March & Friday 20th March 2020

Daunt Books Festival 2020 | Thursday 19th March & Friday 20th March 2020

Save the Date! Thursday 19th March & Friday 20th March 2020

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Talks & Events at Daunt Books

Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar

Wednesday 29th January

Daunt Books Marylebone

Thomas Penn

Thomas Penn

Wednesday 5th February

Daunt Books Marylebone

Lisa Sanfilippo

Lisa Sanfilippo

Thursday 6th February

Daunt Books Hampstead

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Wednesday 12th February

Daunt Books Hampstead

Francesca Wade and Rebecca Mead

Francesca Wade and Rebecca Mead

Wednesday 12th February

Daunt Books Marylebone

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We are thrilled to welcome Petina Gappah to Daunt Books Marylebone on Tuesday 18th February.⁣
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Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer, whose debut story collection An Elegy for Easterly won the Guardian First Book prize in 2009. Her new novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light tells the story of the body of the explorer David Livingstone and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles to the coast so that he could be buried in his own country. It has already been hailed as one of the books of the year and we can’t wait to hear more.⁣
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‘An incredible and important book by a masterful writer’ Yaa Gyasi⁣
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Petina will be in conversation with Maya Jaggi, the award-winning cultural journalist and critic who writes on global literature and art for the Financial Times, New York Review of Books and Guardian Review, and was formerly on the staff of the Guardian. She is artistic director of Sea of Stories on the Gulf of Poets, a summer talks series in Liguria, and Critic at Large for Words Without Borders in New York.⁣
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We are thrilled to welcome @derekowusuwrites to ⁣
Daunt Books in Hampstead on Thursday February 20th at 6.30pm.⁣
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That Reminds Me, a novel in verse is the searing story of one young man, from birth to adulthood, told in fragments of memory. It explores questions of identity, belonging, addiction, sexuality, violence, family and religion. A deeply moving and completely original work of literature, this is the first novel to be published by @stormzy @merkybooks . Derek will be chatting about the book with actor @kobnaholdbrooksmith , narrator of the audiobook for That Reminds Me. ⁣
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Kevin Wilson’s Nothing to See Here is truly hilarious and the perfect flaming antidote to the winter chill.⁣
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We haven’t laughed and cried so much since reading @taffyakner Fleishman is in Trouble. ⁣
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Reviewing this gem in the New York Times, the very same @taffyakner says:⁣
'Good Lord, I can't believe how good this book is... It's wholly original. It's also perfect... Wilson writes with such a light touch that it seems fairly impossible for the book to have a big emotional payoff. But there is, and that's the brilliance of the novel - that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn't see coming. You're laughing so hard you don't even realize that you've suddenly caught fire.' ⁣
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We are thrilled to be publishing Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho.⁣
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As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman – a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author⁣
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It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape.⁣
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The two form an uneasy relationship. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to discover an ‘authentic’ Korea, they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls, and cross into North Korea. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows – the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother works. As she’s pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.⁣
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An exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Dusapin’s voice is distinctive and unmistakable.⁣
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‘A masterpiece.’ – Huffington Post⁣
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‘A tender and poetic first novel.’ – Le Monde⁣
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‘Mysterious, beguiling, and glowing with tender intelligence, Winter in Sokcho is a master class in tension and atmospherics, a study of the delicate, murky filaments of emotion that compose a life. Dusapin has a rare and ferocious gift for pinning the quick, slippery, liveness of feeling to the page: her talent is a thrill to behold.’ – Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine⁣
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‘I haven’t encountered a voice like this since Duras – spellbinding.’ – ELLE (France)⁣
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‘Atmospheric, exquisitely written and highly charged.’ – Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy⁣
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‘Remarkable in its formal daring and maturity.’ – Lire⁣
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Such A Fun Age by @kileyreid has been keeping us reading well into the early hours.
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“This is the calling card of a virtuoso talent, a thrilling millennial spin on the 19th-century novel of manners that may call to mind another recent literary sensation. I had thought of ending this review by predicting that Kiley Reid may be the next Sally Rooney. But Such a Fun Age is so fresh and essential that I predict instead that next year we'll be anxiously awaiting the next Kiley Reid” – @guardian ⁣.
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“What a joy to find a debut novel so good that it leaves you looking forward to the rest of its author's career . . . A tantalisingly plotted tale about the way we live now . . . Such a Fun Age speaks for itself; I suspect it will turn its writer into a star” – @thetimes
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“Will fire off a million debates . . . The pages sing with charisma and humour” – Sunday Times⁣
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“Razor-sharp . . . Reid writes with a confidence and verve that produce magnetic prose . . . A cracking debut – charming, authentic and every bit as entertaining as it is calmly intelligently damning” – @obsnewreview ⁣
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It is a great pleasure to welcome back Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return to Marylebone High Street for our first talk of the new year on Wednesday 29th January at 7pm.
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When Hisham was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of Painting for the first time.⁣
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In the same year his father disappeared and he became transfixed by these paintings. In his new book, A Month in Siena, he wonderfully evokes the city and the place it has in his life and profoundly considers the connection between its art, his own grief and how art connects with the human condition.⁣
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