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Daunt Books was founded in 1990 by former banker James Daunt with the purchase of a bookshop on Marylebone High Street. [1] It now focuses on first-hand titles (especially travel-related material). The Marylebone branch is housed in a former Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries, graceful skylights and William Morris prints.
Achilles James Daunt CBE (born 18 October 1963) is a British businessman. He is the founder of the Daunt Books chain, and since May 2011 has been managing director of the bookshop chain Waterstones. Since August 2019, Daunt has also been CEO of Barnes & Noble, the American bookstore chain. He is known as "the man who saved Waterstones".
James Daunt, who is also chief executive of Barnes & Noble, said social media trends such as ‘BookTok’ on TikTok had been ‘hugely positive’.
Marylebone High Street is a shopping street in London, running sub-parallel to Baker Street and terminating at its northern end at the junction with Marylebone Road. Given its secluded location, the street has been described as "the hidden wonder of the West End " [ 1 ] and it was voted Best Street in London in 2002 by listeners of BBC Radio 4 ...
At the northern end of Marylebone High Street towards the Marylebone Road there is an area with a colourful history, which includes the former Marylebone Gardens, whose entertainments including bare-knuckle fighting, a cemetery, a workhouse, and the areas frequented by Charles Wesley, all shut down by the close of the 18th century, where today ...
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James Mangold misses the era when movies weren’t embarrassed to make audiences feel something. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Complete Unknown” and comic book adaptation ...
Porter was born in High Wycombe in 1981 and received a degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, followed by an MA in which he studied radical performance art, psychoanalysis, and feminism. [2] [3] Prior to his writing career, Porter managed the Chelsea branch of Daunt Books [4] and won the Bookseller of the Year ...