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This year we are very excited to be taking part in The Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival, running between 19th and 21st September. You'll get a chance to see Simon Callow, Yotam Ottolenghi, Lionel Shriver and Maggie O'Farrell.
Gifts & Bags
A package of well-chosen books, beautifully wrapped with a hand-written message, is a wonderful present to send to someone. Why not take a look at some of our ideas below?
It's also possible to buy one of our famous bags, or a book token which can be redeemed in any of our shops.
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The Book Club Mum
- Price: £27.98
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- A selection of three clever, funny and feminine books from the Pushkin catalogue, a small publisher who specialise in translations of great European fiction. We have chosen Stefan Zweig's Selected Stories, Anton Szerb's Journey by Moonlight and Wish Her Safe At Home by Stephen Benatar.
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The Father
- Price: £34.97
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- A bundle of books that should suit a Dad whatever his interests. We have picked the gripping war time thriller Alone in Berlin, the most recent history bestseller D-Day and the biography of double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zig Zag. It's hard to find a customer who hasn't loved all three of these.
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The Godson
- Price: £38.97
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- To commemorate 80 years since we first met Hercule Poirot, Harper Collins have reissued hardback copies of the first editions of Agatha Christie's brilliant thrillers. We have chosen our top three, Five Little Pigs, Peril at End House and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a great present for a young teenage boy.
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The Host
- Price: £32.99
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- Pushkin Press are also famous for their lovely smaller editions which make perfect bedside books. Why not thank someone by sending our selection of The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb, The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand and A Dark Stranger by Julien Gracq.
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The Daunt Books Subscription
- Price: £120.00
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- A subscription with Daunt Books entitles the bearer to a new book every month for one year and the choice of book is based on personal taste. Do you know someone who likes to keep up with the best new fiction? Do they want recommendations from knowledgeable booksellers? Then this is the best possible present. Please send us an email if you would like to set this up and please note that the price varies according to your specifications.
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The Newly Weds
- Price: £46.94
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- Starting a new life together, we think any couple would love Nigel Slater's fantastic recipe book Appetite, The Big Short Break, a travel guide to weekend getaways, and a book of Pablo Neruda's book of poetry 20 Love Poems.
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The Crime Lover
- Price: £27.97
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- Three of the best pieces of European crime ever. We think that the first in the Martin Beck series, Roseanna, the first in the Marseilles trilogy, Total Chaos, and Andrea Camilleri's The Shape of Water will delight any fan of the detective novel.
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The History Buff
- Price: £44.97
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- We have picked three excellent books that we think the history buff is unlikely to have read - Europe's Tragedy, Wilson's history of the 100 years war, Faber's Book of Reportage, a collection of eyewitness accounts of great historical moments, and the glorious History of Histories by John Burrow.
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The Chef
- Price: £42.97
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- A selection of books to delight any chef, we've included the new Flavour Thesaurus which lists 99 popular ingredients and their matching flavours, Bill Buford's Heat which describes the thrilling months that this editor of fiction from The New Yorker spent in a brutal New York kitchen and River Cottage Handbook No. 5, The Edible Seashore.
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The Gardener
- Price: £30.97
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- For the keen gardener, we have selected Katherine Swift's story of her Shropshire Garden, The Morville Hours, the 2010 Yellow Book which lists all the gardens open to visitors in the UK, and finally The Faber Book of Gardens, which is a collection of poems and passionate descriptions from the likes of Charlotte Bronte and Andrew Marvell.
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The Traveller
- Price: £38.97
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- How could we claim to be a travel bookshop without offering a selection of our favourite travel books? Searching out those wonderful accounts and occasional pieces of fiction that have slipped out of print, Eland publish a great selection and we have picked our absolute favourites: A Dragon Apparent by Norman Lewis, The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd and Irfan Orga's Portrait of a Turkish Family to give to anyone off on their travels or just returning.
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The Nature Lover
- Price: £30.00
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- Beautiful new editions of 20th century classic nature writing, this collection would make a wonderful present for any nature lover. We've chosen The Unofficial Countryside by Richard Mabey, The South Country by Edward Thomas and Men and the Fields by Adrian Bell.
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The Reader
- Price: £30.97
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- The New York Review of Books publish consistently clever and interesting books which have disappeared from print and certainly shouldn't have. We have picked Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon, They Burn the Thistles by Yashar Kemal and John Collier's Fancies and Goodnights. Will thrill any self-respecting reader.
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The Writer
- Price: £55.00
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- The perfect present for any writer. The techniques, styles and peculiar habits of the most exciting writers of the 20th century are explored in this four volume box set of the famous Paris Review interviews. We hear from the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and T. S. Eliot.
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The Poet
- Price: £24.00
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- Even for those poetry fans for whom John Betjeman, T S Eliot and Ted Hughes are recitingly familiar, these Faber editions with exquisite black and white woodcut jackets are bound to be a treat.
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Seeing Further
- Price: £25.00
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- A glorious history of Science and the Royal Society from 1660 edited by Bill Bryson. Lavishly illustrated, it includes contributions from Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood, and descriptions of experiments from trying to trap a spider inside a circle of ground unicorn's horn to dissecting a live cat. A wonderful present that you may want to keep for yourself.
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The Great Gatsby
- Price: £50.00
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- Glittering decadence and doomed glamour of 1920s New York, an absolute classic filled with suspense, loneliness and passion. This gloriously tactile, leather-bound edition from Penguin makes a marvellous present for the Scott-Fitzgerald fan or a young man off to university.
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Canvas Daunt Bag
- Price: £5.00
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- A sturdy, well-designed canvas bag for your books, your shopping or to take with you to the beach. All our bags are fair trade and are made by re-wrap, a not-for-profit organisation working with co-operatives in India.
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Cotton Daunt Bag
- Price: £1.50
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- A white cotton bag printed with the Daunt logo. The environmentally friendly way to carry your shopping home with you. All our bags are fair trade and are made by re-wrap, a not-for-profit organisation working with co-operatives in India.
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Daunt Book Token
- Price: £10.00
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- A £10 Gift Certificate for use in any of our five Daunt bookshops. There is no expiry date and change will be given in the form of a credit note.
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Daunt Book Token
- Price: £20.00
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- A £20 Gift Certificate for use in any of our five Daunt bookshops. There is no expiry date and change will be given in the form of a credit note.
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Daunt Book Token
- Price: £50.00
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- A £50 Gift Certificate for use in any of our five Daunt bookshops. There is no expiry date and change will be given in the form of a credit note.