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Ledia Xhoga’s Misinterpretation is a compelling Ledia Xhoga’s Misinterpretation is a compelling novel that weaves ideas of family, country and the darker legacies of past trauma into an emotional thriller.

In present-day New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions. Despite her husband’s cautions, she soon becomes entangled in her clients’ struggles: Alfred’s nightmares stir up her own buried memories, and an impulsive attempt to help a Kurdish poet leads to a risky encounter and a reckless plan. 

As ill-fated decisions stack up, jeopardising the nameless narrator’s marriage and mental health, she takes a spontaneous trip to reunite with her mother in Albania, where her life in the United States is put into stark relief. When she returns to face the consequences of her actions, she must question what is real and what is not.
 
We are proud to publish Misinterpretation @dauntbookspub and were thrilled to see it longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

@lediaxhoga was in town for the @thebookerprizes ceremony this week  and kindly stopped by to sign copies.
We continue our rundown of our favourite books of We continue our rundown of our favourite books of the year, this week with a focus on history and current affairs.

Technology expert Dan Wang suggests we should see China as an engineering state, committed to relentlessly building big whatever the social cost. As its rivalry with America hots up, this may be its biggest strength or its great flaw. 

 

What lessons can we learn from the devastation wreaked by the financial crash of 1929? Andrew Ross Sorkin’s gripping narrative history is the place to start.

Mark Galeotti suggests that organised crime is the organising principle of our ultra-networked global economy in this fiercely readable and ultimately chilling book. 

#nonfictionbooksoftheyear #dauntbooks
Congratulations to David Szalay, winner of the 202 Congratulations to David Szalay, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize. 

Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives. #flesh #davidszalay #bookerprize #bookerprize2025
This week we’re highlighting our favourite books This week we’re highlighting our favourite books of the year, with a focus on history and current affairs.

The Guardian’s international security correspondent charts the wave of radical terrorism that swept the globe in the 1970s, combining high drama, period detail and keen analysis of the long-term repercussions. #therevolutionists 

Sam Dalrymple joins the family business with a bravura history of the Raj’s collapse, identifying five major partitions that reshaped modern Asia. #shatteredlands 

This ambitious and engaging new biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and rival to Kissinger, is an engrossing portrait of a major geopolitical thinker. 
#zbig
Join us in Marylebone Village on Wednesday 12 Nove Join us in Marylebone Village on Wednesday 12 November 2025, from 3–8pm, for the return of the much-loved Merry Marylebone event.

Celebrate the start of the festive season with an afternoon of live entertainment, seasonal treats, late-night shopping, and the spectacular Christmas lights switch-on. A magical evening for all ages is not to be missed!

The main stage will again be on Devonshire Street in the middle of the village, featuring many musical and choral performances, with BBC Broadcaster and Marylebone Village resident Jo Good returning as the host of the switch-on event. The Christmas lights throughout Marylebone Village will be lit up on the evening at 6pm, with a soon-to-be-announced celebrity guest pushing the button to illuminate the village.

Expect an unforgettable evening filled with seasonal activities, including artisan market stalls, Christmassy craft workshops, late-night shopping offers, festive experiences and gifts, specially curated menus from some of your favourite brands and restaurants, as well as a variety of exciting activations including a charity tombola, live music, a ferris wheel and Santa’s grotto!

This year’s event will be in support of local charity The Marylebone Project, who provides life-changing help for homeless women and is the largest and longest-running centre of its kind in the UK.
Keith McNally, the visionary restaurateur behind s Keith McNally, the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis, kindly stamped our copies of his brilliantly entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir I Regret Almost Everything this morning.

Eloquent and opinionated, Keith McNally writes about his stint as a child actor, his travels along the hippie trail, his wives and children, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety.
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