An original Edwardian bookshop on Marylebone High Street with four other shops throughout London, plus another in Oxford. Publishers since 2010
@dauntbookspub
Walked past our fellow booksellers
@Dauntbooks
Marylebone at 7am this morning, in the rain, on the way to the station. The whole scene looked like it was painted by Van Gogh.
You may be a long way off,
and it may take you a long time,
but keep at it. You'll get there.
#MondayMotivation
(Pictured: the glorious steps of Balamand University, Lebanon.)
We're open & ready to offer refuge for body & soul (& animal, vegetable, mineral) from the bitter cold today - don't freeze, come browse & read.
(Thanks to for the beautiful photography)
From today and throughout lockdown all our shops are staffed with a handful of our amazing booksellers offering advice over the phone or via email. You can collect your purchases at the door, we can deliver locally, or post out. Alternatively visit ❤️
We are taking online orders again! You can browse a selection of our books here but if you'd like something you can't see on our website please email enquires
@dauntbooks
.co.uk and we may be able to order it for you.
From this Monday 29th March all of our shops (with the exception of Haverstock Hill) with be staffed so that you can call/email your requests and collect at the door. We can't wait to see you again - thank you for your online support this lockdown, we have the best customers.
To all readers, young & old,
to parents for their gift of a lifelong love of reading,
to our brilliant booksellers at school bookfairs across the city,
to the annual tsunami of £1 books & tea by the gallon,
in fact, of course, to everyone,
Happy
#WorldBookDay
!
Whilst we had hoped to be seeing you soon, we wanted to reassure you we're still here to recommend and post books you'd like or to send as a cheering gift for a friend.
Marylebone will remain open 9-6 Monday-Saturday and 11-6 Sunday for web/phone orders and click and collect.
We have the best teams, both in and out of lockdown, camera shy or not. Thank you to all our booksellers, you are amazing. We looking forward to welcoming our customers back tomorrow.
To all our customers in London, we will remain open for browsing and shopping throughout the Christmas period and look forward to welcoming you into our shops
@OwlBookshop
#Christmas
#tier3london
We are delighted to announce that we will be opening our shops next Monday the 15th of June.
We have been fitting perspex screens at all our till points and using signage and floor markings to make safe browsing…
After twelve long weeks we are incredibly excited to welcome back our customers to a slightly different, but hopefully still very enjoyable bookshop experience tomorrow morning.
We will ask you to use hand…
Thank you for your support and encouragement this year. We will be closed tomorrow, Boxing Day and New Year's Day and open Sunday hours inbetween. We wish you a very Happy Christmas, from all our booksellers.
@Bookmarks_books
Horrendous. We're very relieved no one was hurt, but no one should have to endure this. We're proud to stand in solidarity with
@Bookmarks_books
, all bookshops, and any and all opposed to intimidation and violence.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.
Our huge thanks & congratulations to international star translator Emily Wilson for her illuminating talk about her version of The Odyssey, the first by a female translator to be published in English.
Signed editions now available from Marylebone High St:
We will be open in Marylebone until 9pm tonight and again tomorrow for your last minute, essential and non essential book purchases. Cheapside and Holland Park with stay open until 7.30pm, all our other branches will be open as usual.
We've just updated our website on how you can currently buy books from us. This includes in store, over the phone and online. We are happy to deliver locally free of charge and we are now offering free postage for UK orders over £40.
We are delighted to announce the lineup for the DAUNT BOOKS FESTIVAL 2018 on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th March. Two days of talks, music, food & wine in the Edwardian reading room in our shop at 83 Marylebone High Street.
To book:
That lineup in full...
Our shops remain open and we are happy to take orders over the phone and to deliver books locally. You can contact our bookshops here
You can also buy a range of new releases on our website & we will post them to you
In order to ensure the safety of our customers & staff, and help in the fight against the Coronavirus, we will be temporarily closed to the public from today. We continue to offer mail order & local delivery. Please check our website for updates
Spring has sprung at Daunt Books! Over the next 2 days, we'll bring you all the books, authors & food from Marylebone High Street, for all those can't join us in person.
We kick off at 10.30am - for last-minute bookings, some tickets are still available:
The Daunt Books Children’s Short Story competition is now open! Follow this link to enter:
We can’t wait to read your stories. Need inspiration? Pick up a copy of last year’s wonderful anthology, illustrated by the brilliant
@Chrisriddell
Writing is hard. But if your story comes to you, pick up the pen & write, write, write.
The winners of the Daunt Books Short Story Competition did, now their stories have been published & illustrated by Chris Riddell! Now on the shelves in all our shops.
#MondayMotivation
This week we have been proud & grateful hosts to bestselling biographers, Women's Prize-shortlisted novelists, modernist masters & more.
Next Wednesday lunchtime, we present
@EmilyRCWilson
on her internationally-acclaimed translation of The Odyssey.
Yesterday we had an email from Australia:
“My daughter lives in London and has asked for anything from the Daunt Books window as her Christmas present. Can you send something off to her?”
We were of course…
Thanks to everyone who took part in the festival - the incredible authors, our amazing staff, our local eateries and the best customers in the world - we are so lucky. Roll on Daunt Books Festival 2023. If you can't wait that long go to our events schedule
We are looking for a mix of booksellers, part-time (3 full days a week) and full time (5 full days a week), plus an extra person during weekends, for our new shop on Banbury Road opening at the start of 2020.…
And that's it for another year! Thank you to all our authors & interviewers for your fascinating & captivating discussions. We are privileged to host you.
Signed editions of our authors' books have been selling fast, so please call 020 7224 2295 for any enquiries.
CONGRATULATIONS and well done to Marlow in Year Two who recently entered the
@Dauntbooks
National Story Writing Competition. From hundreds of entries, his story, The Scared Whale, was picked to be published in an anthology of the 15 winners.
#cwclivesharecelebrate
#Reading
For our latest lunchtime talk, we wanted an author who speaks truth to our times, yet who writes with the skill to grace prize lists like
@ManBookerPrize
&
@nationalbook
.
In the end, we got two.
JESMYN WARD & KAMILA SHAMSIE
12pm, Wednesday 25th April
Today is
#internationalwomensday2018
& to mark it the
@WomensPrize
has announced its sensational longlist. To order any of these magnificent novels, or to ask our booksellers for their favourites, call, email or DM us.
Congratulations to all the authors & publishers!
#IWD2018
Yesterday had history & politics, food & wine (plus flawless advice on committing the perfect murder) - if only there were more days like these.
Fortunately...