In celebration of Independent Bookshop Week, we're partnering with the brilliant Daunt Books Publishing. Our booksellers have chosen just a selection of their favourite Daunt Books titles from literary novels to anthologies.
This book is so powerful in its observations of a writing life. Amina Cain's quiet but meaningful reflections on life, writing, and landscape have a way of nestling into your soul. A must read for any writer!
Jenna
Published: 6th Oct '22
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Indelicacy is a subtle novel but so powerful. A cleaning woman working at an art museum imagines more from her life. She asks herself if she could write about art or write stories. As she pursues a life beyond the art museum, the woman must ask herself what a creative life looks like, and what sacrifices she is willing to make. Amina Cain understands the fullness and emptiness that can accompany an artistic life, and Indelicacy reflects the great mind that Cain has!
Jenna
Published: 3rd Sep '20
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
This book was a revelation to me. It's part prose, part poetry, part essay on the limits of language, love, and the universe. How can we even begin to comprehend the world we live in, and the emotions within us, when our words and our creativity can barely capture its essence? Climate catastrophe looms over this intimate narrative, the narrator constantly reaching for understanding and connection with others and the shifts of the natural world. Beautiful.
Katya
Published: 28th Apr '22
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Filled to the brim with insight and observation, this is a memoir formed by the streets of New York. Gornick's articulation of the relationship with self and others is punctuated throughout by her friend, Leonard, whose interruptions ground the narrative in an echo of their shared friendship. My copy of this is already well-loved and underlined throughout.
Molly
Published: 16th Jan '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
A cosy and heartwarming collection of essays about the exceptional bond of companionship that we hold with our dogs. At once funny, vulnerable and touching, you will no doubt find yourself nostalgic for all of the furry companions in your life after reading.
Selena
Published: 16th Mar '23
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Published: 8th Oct '20
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Published: 25th Mar '21
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Published: 30th Jul '20
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Published: 14th Oct '21
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
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The Team
Published: 10th Apr '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Published: 19th Apr '18
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 5th Jun '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 13th Mar '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Published: 18th Aug '22
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 1st Aug '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
This completely absorbing novel about eight female boxers competing against one another is a knock-out (pun intended). Each boxer brings their own expectations, history, and reasons for competing to the ring. With every punch, bead of sweat, and keen observation, an incredible portrait of the intimacies and physicality of the sport come alive.
Jenna
Published: 28th Mar '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99