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

Hamp

stead:
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

We are thrilled to welcome the Pulitzer prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer to Marylebone to discuss his latest, bril...
11/06/2026

We are thrilled to welcome the Pulitzer prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer to Marylebone to discuss his latest, brilliant book Villa Coco.

A coming-of-age novel, a love story and a tale of life-enhancing friendship, Villa Coco is yet another showcase for Andrew Sean Greer’s wit, sophistication and deep knowledge of focaccia in this magical tale set amidst the Tuscan hills.

Broke and directionless, our young man takes a job in the Italian countryside as the all-purpose assistant to Lisabetta, known to her friends as Coco – a strong-willed, wealthy widow of great local renown.

Trained as an archivist, he thinks he’s been hired to catalogue the contents of the beautiful, crumbling mansion nestled in the green Tuscan hills… but what are his actual duties? As summer turns into autumn and the Italian countryside begins to work its magic on our protagonist, the secrets of Villa Coco and its inhabitants are slowly brought to light – and with them, an unforgettable story of the enduring power of friendship.

The great Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí’s work is instantly recognisable. Yet much about this unworldly genius remains ...
10/06/2026

The great Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí’s work is instantly recognisable. Yet much about this unworldly genius remains a mystery, not least the source of his visionary talent. His explanation – that the fount of his imagination was God – is often forgotten by modern critics.

In reconnecting Gaudí’s architecture with his faith, Peter Stanford follows his footsteps through Barcelona, retracing his life through the buildings, parks and landscapes he admired and those that he created.

Ryna returns to her home village in a remote corner of Belarus to attend her granny’s wake. That night as Ryna sits alon...
09/06/2026

Ryna returns to her home village in a remote corner of Belarus to attend her granny’s wake. That night as Ryna sits alone with the coffin, Granny Darafeya, who lived to be a hundred, tells one last story. This is her tale and that of her grandmother, one-eyed Maryanka, feared and respected by their neighbours for her powers of healing and witchcraft.

Anarchic, fierce and darkly comic, the voices of these three women absolutely leap from the pages of this unusual and highly entertaining novel.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries forged a powerful image of England: a familiar narrative of ruffs and gowns, kin...
08/06/2026

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries forged a powerful image of England: a familiar narrative of ruffs and gowns, kings and queens. But beneath this lies a more complex and connected reality of travelling Venetian glassmakers with English wives, African innkeepers and Native American envoys.

This Little World offers a startlingly new, globally resonant vision of England’s past and what it meant to be English. It challenges us to rethink some of our most fundamental ideas: about nationhood, about identity, and above all, about belonging.

George Michael rocketed to fame in the 1980s with Wham! By the turn of the nineties, he was an increasingly reclusive po...
07/06/2026

George Michael rocketed to fame in the 1980s with Wham! By the turn of the nineties, he was an increasingly reclusive pop genius. Comebacks, controversy and artistic triumphs followed, until his tragic death at just 53 in 2016. Openly gay and proud to be a second generation migrant, he was a trailblazer and an inspiration to many. Sathnam Sanghera is a mega fan and this collection of ruminations on the singer’s life and work is a joyful and serious-minded tribute to a true icon.

It is 1865 and Tomás and his ten year old son Liam are surveying a rainswept peninsular in the west of Ireland. The land...
06/06/2026

It is 1865 and Tomás and his ten year old son Liam are surveying a rainswept peninsular in the west of Ireland. The land and its people have been devastated by famine and new maps must be made to describe a changed territory. But older forces are at work too and a drink from an ancient well will alter Tomás forever.

Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is a bold and sweeping feat of storytelling steeped in Celtic legend and rooted in the landscape.

In this irreverent and often very funny guide, Chad Bown and Soumaya Keynes explore the new rules of trade. How can we ...
05/06/2026

In this irreverent and often very funny guide, Chad Bown and Soumaya Keynes explore the new rules of trade. How can we prepare for what the future might hold and could trade wars lead to hot wars? What can the West learn from China? How should countries defend their economies? How to Win a Trade War argues that the old system is dead and considers what will emerge in its place.

Our Lady’s, the abandoned Victorian asylum that looms over the city of Cork, is about to become luxury flats. The author...
04/06/2026

Our Lady’s, the abandoned Victorian asylum that looms over the city of Cork, is about to become luxury flats. The author protagonist of Said the Dead, has always known that had she been born a little earlier, she would have been one of its inhabitants. From the files of its archive the voices of the women who resided there begin to speak.

Voices of resistance, voices of despair and voices of love, they people this genre-defying and deeply affecting book.

Since losing his job, Ned’s sole responsibility has been to look after his six-year-old son while his wife works. When h...
03/06/2026

Since losing his job, Ned’s sole responsibility has been to look after his six-year-old son while his wife works. When he one day finds his old tennis racquet buried in the garage, he also unearths a part of his former self. On a whim, and without his wife’s knowledge, Ned rejoins his former tennis club – and finds life outside the realm of domesticity.

A meditation on fathers and sons, male friendship, and the all-consuming thrill of competing and winning, Dad Had a Bad Day is wincingly funny and addictive – and, ultimately, poignant and quietly heartbreaking.

Stolen Revolution is the moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of mod...
02/06/2026

Stolen Revolution is the moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history from the promise of the 1979 revolution, its betrayal by the Islamic fundamentalist state, to a people’s undying spirit of resistance. Award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran’s recent history with all its bitter twists and stubborn hope.

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83 Marylebone High Street
London
W1U4QW

Opening Hours

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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+442072242295

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