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An original Edwardian bookshop on Marylebone High Street with four other shops throughout London, plus another in Oxford. Publishers since 2010 @dauntbookspub

London
Joined September 2010
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@Dauntbooks
Daunt Books
3 years
Life is starting to feel good once again. See you on Monday 💚 #indiebooks #PositiveVibes
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Wishing you all a very happy new year from everyone at Daunt Books!
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6 years
Can't believe Gillian Anderson was in the shop and no one told me.
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Gillian Anderson
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Check out our @WeWomenTogether giveaway with @HarperCollinsUK ! Head over to our WE instagram for details on how to enter: @jenniferdnadel #WeWomen @Dauntbooks
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Wish we'd been there to give a bookselling high five! 3 more Sundays to go! Happy shopping everyone.
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Kenilworth Books🌱🌺🌻🦔
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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.
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Chris. The most sophisticated, well read doorman on Marylebone High Street, here til 6pm today.
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3 years
We open again TOMORROW🎄and, my goodness, are we excited to see you.
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6 years
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.)
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6 years
Never realised we needed a company car before. #FridayFeeling (Photography from the Alexander Londoner account: )
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6 years
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)
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This Saturday feels too long to wait, but we're JUST GOING TO HAVE TO. See you at 9am when we finally open the doors to all you lovely Summertown people 📚📚📚 @IndieOxford @SummertownScene @inoxford @BBCOxford
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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 ❤️
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4 years
Thanks for all your lovely comments about our new shop in Summertown, Oxford. We hope to be open within the fortnight 🎉 keep those eyes peeled.
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Lucia Nixon
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I have seen the future — ⁦ @Dauntbooks ⁩ in Summertown! Opening at the end of July!
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Friday: buy books under skylights. Bank Holiday Weekend: read books in the sunlight. #FridayFeeling (Photography: @vintagebooks )
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8 years
Celebrating London in Fragments with @tedsandling tonight and these delicious biscuits; yes BISCUITS!
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4 years
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.
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7 years
Green and Navy and Black and Burgundy and Stone canvas bags. All now available to buy online
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Photo by Otto Berkeley
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3 years
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.
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You can't be guilty of virtue.
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Beautiful new editions of Russian classics from @vintagebooks . Available from any of our shops! Tel. 020 7224 2295.
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6 years
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 !
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@Dauntbooks
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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.
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Daunt Books
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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.
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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
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4 years
ATTENTION ALL!! 🗣️ our new Summertown shop will open this coming weekend! We're getting ridiculously excited now.
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3 years
Such a treat early this morning. Thank you @Nigella_Lawson for coming in to sign, we felt very honoured @ChattoBooks #Christmas
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See you at 11am for some bank holiday bookselling in all our shops. Thank you @lucie_eleanor for this lovely photo of Marylebone. #BankHolidayWeekend
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6 years
Daunt Books bags. Apparently multi-purpose. Happy Monday, everyone. #MondayMotivation
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8 years
We're excited to announce the Daunt Books Autumn Festival! Thurs 6th and Fri 7th October.
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4 years
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…
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4 years
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…
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Daunt Books
3 years
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.
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9 years
Introducing our next publication: @bapsisid 's funny & masterful novel, The Crow Eaters, with a foreword by @fbhutto . http://t.co/f6fCMJz6de
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9 years
Daunt tote bags: good for books, good for cats. #Lunathecat http://t.co/sdeGeXKusn
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8 years
The Daunt Books Festival returns for 2016! Speakers include @Elif_Safak @WillGompertzBBC @simonmontefiore ....
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@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.
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Excited to welcome Mathias Enard, whose novel 'Compass' is up for the Man Booker International Prize. @FitzcarraldoEds #MBI2017
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Thank you to @LivrariaLello for inviting Daunt Books over to their beautiful shop in Porto for #worldbookday .
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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:
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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.
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Chuffed with my haul from @Dauntbooks #IndieBookshopWeek 📚
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7 years
Congrats to Daunt Books Short Story Competition winner Johnny Ravenscroft! Thanks to @_JimField and @jabberworks for their great support.
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3 years
Incredibly flattered - our canvas bag is part of the V&A exhibition. Thank you @V_and_A
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9 years
Penguin Little Black Classics are in! 80 titles for 80p each. Buy the complete collection at http://t.co/FaUbocGUbb http://t.co/EHkScr9UgD
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6 years
British Summertime = gorgeous flowers + international crime #WednesdayWisdom #BritishSummercrime (Beautiful photography )
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3 years
We feel very honoured; congratulations!
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4 years
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.
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Daunt Books
8 years
V excited to confirm that we will be bringing back independent bookselling to Saffron Walden later this year under the Hart's Books banner.
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4 years
Daunt Books Summertown.     See you tomorrow at 9am.  📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚    #summertown #oxford #newbookshop #readingwithdauntbooks @ Banbury Road
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Daunt Books
6 years
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...
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Daunt Books
4 years
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
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8 years
Daunt Books Autumn Festival, 6/7 Oct. RT for chance to win a limited editon bag. Line-up at
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4 years
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
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6 years
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:
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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
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8 years
We've launched our Christmas gift guide! Ideas for art lovers, history buffs & fiction fans
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6 years
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
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We could not be happier to welcome customers back into our shops for #indiebookshopweek .⁣ #independentbookshopweek #readingwithdauntbooks ⁣ @ Daunt Books
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8 years
The ever stylish Emily with our NEW ever stylish black bag.
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3 years
We may not be sorry to say goodbye to 2020, but we're taking these brilliant reads with us into 2021. Happy New Year everyone @oldstpublishing @FitzcarraldoEds @BloomsburyBooks @dialoguebooks @AllenLaneBooks @GrantaBooks @thamesandhudson @DauntBooksPub
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8 years
Our first full day's opening in @marlowbookshop , and super busy! Contendedly pooped.
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6 years
What a fantastic morning we have had at the Festival already: poetry prescriptions! bunting aplenty! artisan chocolate!
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Daunt Books
6 years
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.
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These lovely things just arrived in Marylebone. Gorgeous @williamgrill designs coming soon to a Daunt Books near you! http://t.co/0oL5lIOanT
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7 years
Thrilled to welcome @viet_t_nguyen to Marylebone this morning. Signed copies of The Refugees now available, from the Pulitzer Prize Winner.
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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…
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8 years
The cover for the much-anticipated Ways to Disappear by @IdraNovey Out in July!
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8 years
On the shelf #Tintin
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1 year
Free tonight? Tickets still available for our #cookforukraine event with food writers @Olia_Hercules and @alissatimoshkin , the price of the ticket going directly to the campaign supporting @UNICEF 7pm Marylebone. Join us in solidarity 💙🍴💛
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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
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Festival twins. Join us on 15th & 16th March in Marylebone for an extravaganza of talks . Book now!
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8 years
Tickets for #dauntbooksfestival2016 now on sale & we think it's a pretty cracking line-up
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5 years
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.…
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Daunt Books
8 years
Just in! Second round of bound proofs for our July title -- WAYS TO DISAPPEAR -- due to high demand.
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8 years
Newest member of the team test drives child size tote bag #adorable
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Daunt Books
6 years
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.
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4 years
Saturday morning housework #DungBeetleBooks #MiriamElia
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8 years
Oooh we've got a very smart new floor downstairs in Marylebone High Street. Feeling fancy.
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9 years
Sadly he doesn't come with our bags but he's pretty great anyway http://t.co/yrTKdc0ImA
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8 years
Introducing our August publication: Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2014.
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Today is the day, we're open and festival ready! See you in an hour...
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4 years
Well done Marlow!
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CWC East Ferry Primary School
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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
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8 years
Our bookseller Samantha chooses her favourite Parisian fiction..
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8 years
Out this week: a novel about Partition by one of Pakistan's most important authors
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We're excited to announce that we're opening a new shop in #Marlow , Bucks! @marlowbookshop opens in August.
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Daunt Books
8 years
Looking good Saffron Walden... opening within the next few days! @hartsbooks #booksaremybag
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Daunt Books
3 years
Gorgeous
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John Freeman
3 years
In case you missed it - @dauntbooks by Keith Page #DrawYourBookshop
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2 years
Thank you @CalebANelson @ticecin . The perfect end to a really special day 🌟
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6 years
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
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We are a very excited bookshop @BigPicturePress ! Straight into the window it goes... #Animalium http://t.co/GYN8P2b45H
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3 years
Thomas. Camera shy European fiction lover and all-round good guy #EU #WhatToReadThisWeekend
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2 years
Bunting, cakes, people waving. What else are you going to do when it's raining tomorrow? Daunt Books Festival 19&20 May
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Daunt Books
4 years
The World of Sherlock Holmes IN JIGSAW. What's not to love. 📞 020 7224 2295
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Daunt Books
6 years
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
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8 years
If you quite like the idea of nicely wrapped Daunt Books being posted to you...
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7 years
Signed (and stamped) copies of 'A Gentleman in Moscow' by Amor Towles are now available at Daunt Books Marylebone High Street! #books
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A treat to see @adamgopnik this afternoon and now, of course, we have signed copies of The Real Work - hooray! @HachetteUK
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6 years
Yesterday had history & politics, food & wine (plus flawless advice on committing the perfect murder) - if only there were more days like these. Fortunately...
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Witches & house-elves to meet, Daunt Books, midnight Saturday! Prizes for fancy dress #HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild
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