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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
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Introducing Tutku Barbaros – author of DD’s next collection
Meet Tutku, whose triumphant story collection we’ll be publishing next summer as DD’s second one-author book, with support using public funding from Arts Council England. Read More
1 year ago
Meet our books
With four collections of fiction, non-fiction and poetry out in the world, we wanted to take a moment to reintroduce you to this empowering gang – through a bit of speed dating. Read More
1 year ago
What She’s Having: Stories of Women and Food
Bringing together fiction, non-fiction and poetry, this collection of women's stories about food is something to savour. Buy your copy. Read More
3 years ago
DD Blog: Interview with Lucy Cuthew, author of Blood Moon
Nothing pleases us more than when a DD writer goes on to have their writing published elsewhere – so we were delighted to speak to Lucy Cuthew, debut author of Blood Moon, about writing, poetry and being published. Read More
3 years ago
A Soul Filled With Stories
Books can offer companionship and comfort, as well as a portal to another world. Amy Clarkin's ode to reading will have you itching to pick up your next read. Read More
6 years ago
Revolutionary Roads
In this personal essay, Harriet Thompson examines whether we can ever trust the desire to follow our dreams, in the context of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road and her own life. Read More
7 years ago
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