Daunt Books

Daunt Books Daunt Books is an original Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries and graceful skylights situate

Daunt Books is an original Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries and graceful skylights situated in Marylebone High Street, London. We also have shops in Chelsea, Holland Park, Hampstead, Belsize Park and Cheapside. Marylebone:
83 Marylebone High Street W1U 4QW
020 7224 2295

Chelsea:
158 Fulham Road SW10 9PR
020 7373 4997

Holland Park:
112-114 Holland Park Avenue W11 4UA
020 7727 7022

Hampstead:
51 South End Road NW3 2QB
020 7794 8206

Belsize Park
193 Haverstock Hill NW3 4QL
020 7794 4006

Cheapside
61 Cheapside EC2V 6AX
020 7248 1117

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s sprawling Cazalet Chronicles are one of the great pleasures of twentieth-century fiction. Now he...
08/09/2026

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s sprawling Cazalet Chronicles are one of the great pleasures of twentieth-century fiction.

Now her niece, Louisa Young has deftly picked up the thread of the much loved family saga. The Golden Hours sees the Cazalet clan face the challenges and opportunities ushered in by the swinging sixties. Pitch-perfect and wonderfully well-judged, Young’s take on the world her aunt created is a welcome addition to the series.

We were delighted to host the launch here in Marylebone earlier this week, and a number of signed copies are available.

Roland Ismay first meets Honey Harper at a film premiere. She is thirty, standing on a ruby carpet and surrounded by adm...
06/09/2026

Roland Ismay first meets Honey Harper at a film premiere. She is thirty, standing on a ruby carpet and surrounded by admirers. They marry in 1962 and live in opulent bliss, everything going swimmingly - that is until the arrival of Brian, Honey’s shy, serious sixteen-year-old stepson. Increasingly bored with married life, Honey is determined to seduce him by any means necessary.

Honey was loved by both Jilly Cooper and Hilary Mantel and we’re delighted to be republishing Elizabeth Jenkins’ deliciously scandalous novel here at Daunt Books.

The Middle East has long been at the epicentre of the world’s most tumultuous currents. No other region has such a hold ...
05/09/2026

The Middle East has long been at the epicentre of the world’s most tumultuous currents. No other region has such a hold on our imagination nor such a propensity to destabilize the global power balance. In The Cauldron, Simon Sebag Montefiore delivers a fresh and unique history of the entire region in all its diversity, from 1900 up to the present day. Taking the reader on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, from Morocco to Iran, this is a dazzling panorama of faith and fanaticism, creativity and tolerance, dictatorship and democracy brought to life by an extraordinary cast of kings, warriors, poets, terrorists and peacemakers.

In her new book, Pulitzer Prize winner Jill Lepore traces the long history of our data-driven, AI-obsessed present. From...
02/09/2026

In her new book, Pulitzer Prize winner Jill Lepore traces the long history of our data-driven, AI-obsessed present.
From the earliest census taken in Mesopotamia to the cold war science fiction that still informs the worldview of Silicon Valley, she argues that we must seek to escape the imminent arrival of the Artificial State.
Informed, witty and often terrifying, this fascinating book may help us imagine, and fight for a different future.

Hannah Arendt was undoubtedly among the greatest minds of the twentieth century. Her political writing, created in respo...
31/08/2026

Hannah Arendt was undoubtedly among the greatest minds of the twentieth century. Her political writing, created in response to fascism and the holocaust, resonates now more powerfully than ever.

Thomas Meyer’s excellent biography follows this ‘stateless’ thinker from N**i Germany to pre-war Paris and on to a new life in the United States. In telling her story and unpacking her ideas, he creates a nuanced portrait of this most complex and fascinating figure.

Rachel Cusk’s string of cool, minimal, disquieting novels continues with Life of M. M is an actor, a star, and I is her ...
30/08/2026

Rachel Cusk’s string of cool, minimal, disquieting novels continues with Life of M. M is an actor, a star, and I is her interlocutor. Together they talk, ranging over what makes a story and how we inhabit the roles we choose for ourselves. We are encouraged to speculate: if I is Cusk, who is M? Online chatter is full of suspicions and possibilities, but the mystery at the heart of this beautiful book remains.

In 1967 David Hockney painted art collector Betty Freeman at her Los Angeles home. They had become friends a year earlie...
29/08/2026

In 1967 David Hockney painted art collector Betty Freeman at her Los Angeles home. They had become friends a year earlier when Hockney was scouting locations for his pool paintings. This now-iconic depiction of mid-century LA’s modernist glamour forms the focus of James Cahill’s portrait of the artist, his muse, and their circle.

Cahill, whose novels Tiepolo Blue and Violet Hour are firm Daunt favourites, is the perfect guide to this vanished world of culture, money and sunshine. We hosted the launch in Marylebone this week so signed copies are available.

Twelve-year-old Linda Dalton lives in a cramped council high-rise with her testy mum, Vera, and affable dad, Denny. She ...
26/08/2026

Twelve-year-old Linda Dalton lives in a cramped council high-rise with her testy mum, Vera, and affable dad, Denny. She is besotted with her father, who in her eyes can do no wrong. When cracks begin to show in Denny and Vera’s marriage, Linda is exposed to an adult world of desire, deception and death that, thanks to her endless hours in front of the TV, she thinks she understands.

The Innocent Party is Celia Dale’s darkest and most compelling novel, the latest in our series of reprints of her work.

From third-century China through to the present day we have used woodcuts to visualise ideas, capture key moments in his...
25/08/2026

From third-century China through to the present day we have used woodcuts to visualise ideas, capture key moments in history and help shape the society around us. This handsomely published and lavishly illustrated history of the medium by distinguished printmaker Paul Coldwell is an ode to craft, care and the power of images.

In a war fuelled by the attempted erasure of Ukrainian culture – a war that has killed countless artists and created cou...
24/08/2026

In a war fuelled by the attempted erasure of Ukrainian culture – a war that has killed countless artists and created countless more – art has become a matter of life and death. In Ukrainian Lessons Charlotte Higgins travels to Ukraine to meet artists and writers who explore the profound connections between war, art and life.

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83 Marylebone High Street
London
W1U4QW

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Monday 9am - 7:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 7:30pm
Thursday 9am - 7:30pm
Friday 9am - 7:30pm
Saturday 9am - 7:30pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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