2019 Catalogue

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Letter from the Publishers

As always, our books take us on a journey. This year, the writers on our list explore how where we are impacts who we are, and the stories we have to tell.

Natalia Ginzburg’s slender, enduring novels Voices in the Evening and Happiness, As Such paint a picture of life in Italy after the Second World War and in the 1970s respectively, through characters tied to home, or eager to leave it. Often, uproot- ing yourself can offer a unique perspective. InThe Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich finds comfort in the harsh, majestic landscape of Wyoming and its taci- turn but tender locals; settling in Aix-en-Provence with her two young daughters, M.F.K Fisher surveys a changed France in Map of Another Town.

The stories in Tatyana Tolstaya’s Aetherial Worlds move from recognisable loca- tions – Soviet Russia, America, France, Crete and Italy – to fantastical ones with dazzling imaginative force. Closer to home, the contributors to At the Pond reflect on Hampstead Heath’s Ladies’ Pond, a place immortalised within literature and uniquely timeless. Meanwhile, in Faces, Vita Sackville-West profiles the globetrot- ting journeys and distinctive characteristics of some very different dogs.

Happy reading!

Contents

4 Voices in the Evening Natalia Ginzburg 5 The Solace of Open Spaces Gretel Ehrlich 6 Aetherial Worlds Tatyana Tolstaya 7 Map of Another Town M.F.K. Fisher 8-9 At the Pond: Writing on the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond 10 Happiness, As Such Natalia Ginzburg 11 Faces: Profiles of Dogs Vita Sackville-West 12 Cassandra at the Wedding Dorothy Baker 13 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 14 Consider the Oyster M.F.K. Fisher 15-26 Backlist 27 Contact Information 28 About Daunt Books Publishing FRONTLIST 4 BCN ex.Can Fiction eISBN: ISBN: B formatpaperback 184 pages £9.99 – February 2019 PUBLICATION DATE

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978-1-911547-32-7 Times ‘A glowinglightofmodernItalianliterature.’ – Introduction by Colm Tóibín | Translated by D.M.Low Natalia Ginzburg Voices intheEvening • • • KEY POINTS necessary, honest,clear.’ –Maggie Nelson abilitytolaythingsbare thatnever feelscontrivedsalutary orcold,only ‘I’m utterlyentrancedby Ginzburg’s style–hermysteriousdirectness, her PRAISE intheItalianand served parliamentfrom 1983to1987. Family Lexicon novels dozens ofbooksincludingtheessaycollection NATALIA GINZBURG est Italian writersofthetwentieth century. aboutfirstloveunforgettable story andlostchances,from oneofthegreat An elegant,spare novel reminiscent ofChekhov, But allofthisisthreatened whentheirrelationship isrevealed. Tommasino, free andexpectation. from theconstraintsofshared history In thecourseoftheirsecret meetings,Elsa beginstoimagineafuture with knows thedetailsoftheirlives asintimatelyherown. The De thatdominatesthetownFranciscis and own theclothfactory Elsa love with Tommasino, theelusive youngest sonoftheDe Francisci family. acute hypochondria.But hermotherdoesnotknow thatElsa hasfallenin is ofconstantconcerntohermother, whosestatusanxietymanifestsitselfin parents inthehousewhere shewasborn. Twenty-seven andunmarried,she In ahushedItalian town aftertheSecond World War, Elsa lives withher widespread praise Evening Following onfrom Captures post-warItaly againstitslegacy generationstruggling andanew whom are fansofGinzburg For readers ofColm Tóibín, Deborah LevyandRachelCusk, allof All Our YesterdaysAll continuesourmajor Ginzburg revival whichhasbeenmetwith . She wasinvolved inpoliticalactivismthroughout herlife

(1916-1991) wasborninPalermo, Sicily. She wrote The Little Virtues The , Happiness , As SuchAs and andtheStrega Prize-winning Family Lexicon The Little Virtues The Voices intheEvening , Voices inthe New York York New , andthe isan - 5 FRONTLIST - - The , is a travel memoir that is is a travel Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake Wake in the A Journey Wave: the Facing , and

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland in Seasons Seven Heaven: This Cold , The Solace of Open Spaces Open The Solace of New York Times York New was born and raised in California. Among her many books was born and raised in California. Among her . macho cowboy on its head macho cowboy Laing and Cheryl Olivia Solnit, Rebecca of Amy Liptrot, readers For Strayed A classic memoir set in the American West that turns the myth of the West A classic memoir set in the American A Match to the Heart A Match • KEY POINTS • GRETEL EHRLICH are PRAISE rope learned to ride and her hair, tossed out her city clothes, cut off ‘Ehrlich Wyoming’s and to survive and calves lambs and punch cattle, to help deliver the long vistas into focus with the poise brings winters… She 30-below-zero – of an Ansel Adams.’ though she had never planned to stay, Ehrlich found herself unable to leave. unable to leave. found herself Ehrlich planned to stay, though she had never What started became the beginning of a new trip life, as well out as a work to place. as a long and deep attachment badlands, her experience of Wyoming alone across of sheep herding Writing her new and taking being struck lightning, the true by meaning of cowboys, as the changing seasons, as well for their honeymoon, husband to the rodeo draws us into her personal relation and the wind, Ehrlich winters extreme she has come to call home. Wyoming’ of ship with this ‘planet As tough as it is tender, is a bold writing with an unexpected bite. It embedded in place, and nature we are. in affects who live the landscape we testimony to how In 1976, Gretel Ehrlich travelled from her home in New York to Wyoming Wyoming to York her home in New from travelled Ehrlich 1976, Gretel In her partner died. Al was away, While she herders. to shoot a film on sheep Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold Into A Journey of Ice: Future of the Tsunami Spaces Ehrlich Gretel Liptrot Amy by Introduction has found its Wyoming funny. ‘Vivid, tough, and – Annie Dillard Whitman.’ The Solace of Open Open of Solace The

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978-1-911547-35-8 978-1-911547-36-5 Chekhov.’ – Vladimir Nabokov andthe emotionalwisdomofAnton whose storiescombinethelinguisticstardustof ‘The foremostwriterofhergeneration,aminiaturist Translated by Anya Migdal Tatyana Tolstaya Aetherial Worlds • • • KEY POINTS Joy– Williams delicate ironist. Tolstaya barrels by himandknocksintheditch.’ compared toChekhov. Absurd: Chekhov, that sorrowful physician,that ‘Everything inthisgenerous writer’s hands isvividandalive… She hasbeen PRAISE culture andpolitics.She lives inMoscow. the co-hostof the traditionthatincludedLeo ily ofrichliterary Tolstoy. She haswrittenfor TATYANA TOLSTAYA in thisdazzlingcollectionofstories, to America, Tolstaya’s ecstatic,wittyandwitchyimaginationisinfullforce in Soviet Russia and settingoffacross theglobefrom Italy to France, Crete Italy?’; achildglimpsesheaven through astained-glasswindow. Beginning fantasies duringhercigarette ifthere break; were avoice asks,‘What no afterlife; aRussian professor inasmallAmericantown elaborate constructs A woman’s deceasedfatherappearsinherdreams withcluesaboutthe twenty years. of eighteenstories,herfirsttobetranslatedinto English inmore than From Russia’s oneofcontemporary finestwriters,aspellbindingcollection Saunders For readers ofElif Batuman, Olga Tokarczuk, Nell Zink andGeorge voices of itsforemost literary Tolstaya isoneofthemostprominent culturalfigures in Russia andone Longlisted fortheNational BookAward for Translated Literature New York Review ofBooks The SchoolforScandal Washington Post Washington was borninLeningrad(now St. Petersburg) intoafam and The New The Yorker , apopularRussian talkshow covering , andfortwelve years was - 7 FRONTLIST - - , she traces the history this of Consider the Oyster and (1908-1992) was one of the greatest Amer (1908-1992) was one of the greatest Map of Another Town of Another Map The Gastronomical Me Gastronomical The K. Fisher

Observer Diana Athill Diana following revival, Fisher M.F.K. Books’ on the success of Daunt Builds on from A classic travel memoir and portrait of France, and a companion piece to memoir and portraitA classic travel of France, Me Gastronomical The and Tomalin Claire Elkin, Lauren Leigh Fermor, of Patrick readers For Cooke, who writes better prose.’ States in the United of anyone ‘I do not know Auden W.H. PRAISE Rachel full stop.’ writer, is a great She food writer. is not just a great ‘She • • • KEY POINTS MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER FRANCES KENNEDY MARY is the author of 27 books of She century. ican food writers of the twentieth become classics. many of which have and memoir, food, travel inhabitants: the waiters and landladies, down-and-outs and local characters, and local and landladies, down-and-outs inhabitants: the waiters France. the effects of the war in a drastically new from all recovering This is an intimate portrait also a self-portrait, of a place that is written in inimitable style – confiding, confident, and always compelling. Fisher’s M.F.K. Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her daughters after the Sec Aix-en-Provence to moved Fisher M.F.K. In War. ond World fountains pretty avenues, its tree-lined for known ancient and famous place, us to its introduces sights, Fisher the tourist and ornate façades. Beyond invader of what was already mine.’ invader of what was Introduction by Lauren Elkin Lauren by Introduction felt the to it, and yet when I first ‘I was a brash newcomer I said, and smelled its ancient smells, rhythm of its streets an I was once more in my own place, for “Of course,” Map of Another Town Another of Map M.F. 978-1-911547-38-9

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13 RECENT BACKLIST - - - is her first book. tells Gidla’s re tells Gidla’s The Return The and Ants Among Elephants Among Ants Ants Among Elephants Among Ants Guardian Behind the Beautiful Forevers the Beautiful Behind was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. She studied Physics at studied Physics She India. was born in Andhra Pradesh, London Review of Books London Review Times Financial RECENT BACKLIST RECENT hardback and paperback hardback of readers For A landmark new book on India, published to huge critical acclaim in new book on India, A landmark Ants Among Elephants Among Ants the and Family An Untouchable India of Modern Making Gidla Sujatha • KEY POINTS • ‘A vital and illuminating book. Sujatha Gidla tells it like it Gidla tells it like and illuminating book. Sujatha vital ‘A Arundhati Roy – is.’ PRAISE India and haunting, books about of the most significant, One ‘Stunning… – read.’ you’ll and Revelatory read… I’ve As deeply absorbing as anything ‘Beautiful… – Amit Chaudhuri, arresting.’ What distin family biography that encompasses a history told... rarely ‘A literature history, anthropology, is its mix of sociology, book guishes Gidla’s – and politics.’ was only when she moved to America at the age of twenty-six that she saw that she saw at the age of twenty-six to America was only when she moved her family history typical – how extraordinary truly – and yet was. how colonial rule. born in the last days of British were mother and uncles Her and injustice, but also full of by poverty up in a world marked They grew prose, rich, novelistic In possibility. emergence as a poet and revolu detailing her uncle’s family story, markable struggle education. for emancipation through tionary and her mother’s GIDLA SUJATHA Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. It an untouchable. It was born Gidla Sujatha in India, Like one in six people the Regional Engineering College in Warangal and at twenty-six moved to moved and at twenty-six Warangal College in Engineering the Regional as a woman to be employed Indian she became the first where York, New subway. York conductor on the New

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978-1-911547-27-3 978-1-911547-28-0 ‘An oysterleadsadreadfulbutexciting life.’ Introduction by Felicity Cloake M.F. Consider theOyster • • • KEY POINTS plicity, viscerality, death,class,anddespair.’ –Ruby Tandoh, MUNCHIES ‘Fisher’s oysters are never justoysters butalsosymbolsofrefinement, sim it’s alive. Swallow itwhole.’ –Niki Segnit, intense, fleetingstimulanttothe readerly appetite.Amorselofabook,but ‘ PRAISE enchants usalongthewaywithhercharacteristicallywiseandwittyprose. to share anddelightsthatthisdelicateedibleevokes, and inthecomforts Plumbing the‘dreadful butexciting’ lifeoftheoyster, Fisher invitesreaders ing powers. bivalve's famedaphrodisiac anditsequallynotoriousgut-wrench properties raw oysters asayoung womaninMarseille andDijon, andexplores boththe dish, Fisher recalls herown initiationintothe‘strange coldsucculence’ of naturel –andofthepearlssometimesfound therein. Asshedescribeseach andsoups,roasted,in stews baked,fried,prepared àlaRockefeller orau most delicateandenigmaticoffoods:theoyster. She tellsofoysters found The celebratedAmericanfoodwriterM.F.K. Fisher paystributetothat Consider theOyster author Felicity Cloake Featuring introduction anew by award-winning foodjournalist and Nora Ephron andNigella Lawson defined modernfoodwriting;for fansof Nigel Slater, Ruby Tandoh, Fisher's intimatestyleandunapologeticappetiteforeating living published withabeautifulpearlescent jacket witty and elegantbookontheworld’sA short, mostluxuriousfood, RECENT BACKLIST

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BACKLIST Family Lexicon In the Distance Natalia Ginzburg Hernan Diaz Translated by Jenny McPhee Introduction by Tim Parks £9.99 B format paperback £9.99 ISBN: 978-1-911547-23-5 B format paperback eISBN: 978-1-911547-24-2 ISBN: 978-1-911547-25-9 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER eISBN: 978-1-911547-26-6 PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 ‘It is perhaps best to say ‘A brutal, sad, tender coming- straight off that the book is a of-age story.’ – Guardian masterpiece.’ – The New Yorker Tomorrow A Cat, A Man, Elisabeth Russell Taylor and Two Women Introduction by Alison Moore Jun'ichirō Tanizaki £9.99 Translated by Paul McCarthy B format paperback £9.99 ISBN: 978-1-911547-12-9 B format paperback eISBN: 978-1-911547-13-6 ISBN: 978-1-911547-03-7 ‘A haunting, beautifully eISBN: 978-1-911547-04-4 written lament for the isolating power of love.’ ‘A tour de force – catnip.’ – Financial Times – New York Times

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