Daphne Press

06/03/2025

Welcome to St Penderghast’s.

We are delighted to reveal the cover for A Rather Vengeful Accord by Danielle Knight!

With art by Tommy Arnold and design by Jane Tibbetts, we hope you love this cover as much as we do.

Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and A Deadly Education, rival classmates Halen Kilchoir and Alastair Faulton must fight eldritch creatures to gain acceptance into an elite university together - and battle their own dangerous feelings for each other.

Featuring:
📚 Dark Academia
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🗡 Gladiatorial combat
💀 Necromancers

Releasing 18 November 2025 in hardback and ebook.

Preorder now: bit.ly/DP_ARVA

A Rather Vengeful Accord will also be the Illumicrate November monthly book pick.

28/10/2024

We’re delighted to reveal the cover for Seven Recipes for Revolution by Ryan Rose! A food-based epic fantasy filled with high stakes and monster steaks, it’s perfect for fans of Pierce Brown and Jay Kristoff.

With art by Kerby Rosanes and design by Chatty Nora, we hope this cover makes you as hungry for this book as we are.

Paprick is a common butcher, carving slabs of meat from gargantuan monsters so elite chefs can cook magic-granting meals for the city’s rich masters. But Paprick’s one true passion is cooking, and if he can learn the secret art, his dreams of liberation and sharing the monster meals’ magic with the world could come true. Revolution is only a few recipes away . . .

Releasing 22 July 2025. Preorder now: bit.ly/DP_SRFR

09/10/2024

The warring gods are returning.

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for The River and the Star by Gabriela Romero Lacruz, the magical sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestselling The Sun and the Void. Designed by Jane Tibbetts, we hope you love this cover as much as we do.

Reina and Eva are now hosts to ruthless, ancient entities: the gods of the sun and the Void. Reina wants to build a new life with her lover Maior, who is still haunted by Laurel’s ghost. And their enemies are not far behind them. Eva wants to prove herself worthy of being the Liberator’s heir, but the god within her threatens to burst free. The two must work together and combine their strength to save their lands and those they love.

The River and the Star releases in the UK on 16 September 2025 in hardback and ebook. Preorder your copy now: bit.ly/DP_TRATS

31/05/2024

15/05/2024

Return to Hemlock Falls for the final time . . .

We are thrilled to share the UK cover for The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard! Designed by Micaela Alcaino, we hope you love it as much as we do.

Winnie can’t wait to celebrate as Luminaries from around the world flock to Hemlock Falls for the Nightmare Masquerade. But when a masked Diana charges Winnie with an impossible task, she must uncover their secrets and stop her enemies before time runs out. The forest is more dangerous than ever in this highly-anticipated, swoon-worthy conclusion to the bestselling Luminaries trilogy.

The Whispering Night releases in the UK on 19th November in paperback and ebook. Preorder your copy now: bit.ly/DP_TWN

There will also be an Illumicrate edition to match the special editions of The Luminaries and The Hunting Moon.

01/05/2024

Journey into a world of mysteries and romance . . .

We are delighted to share the UK cover for A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft! With illustration by Erica Williams and design by Jane Tibbetts, we adore this dark and magical cover and hope you do too 💙

Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles searching for a mythical water source of untold power. When their leader gets murdered, Lorelei and her academic rival, the insufferably gallant Sylvia von Wolff, must uncover the truth, and resist their growing feelings for one another.

If you love academic rivals-to-lovers, sapphic romance and Gothic fables, we think you’ll love this.

A Dark and Drowning Tide releases in the UK on 17 September in hardback and ebook. Preorder your copy now: bit.ly/DP_ADADT.

It will also be the monthly book pick for Illumicrate’s September 2024 box.

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20/02/2024

Something very special is happening today: it's the day To Cage A God soars into the world! Congratulations Elizabeth May 💖 ⁠
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Loved Fourth Wing and want more? Look no further... ⁠
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Grab your copy today!⁠
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08/01/2024

We are beyond thrilled to announce the acquisition of three standalone young adult titles by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White: Hell Followed With Us, a contemporary horror about a trans boy on the run from the cult that raised him and transformed him into a bioweapon; The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, a Victorian gothic horror focused on a trans autistic boy with the power to commune with spirits; and Compound Fracture a gut-wrenching thriller involving a teen who survives attempted murder only to be drawn into a generational struggle between the rural poor, those that exploit them, and the ghosts that seek vengeance.
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Our commissioning editor Davi Lancett says: “I’ve not been able to stop thinking about Hell Followed With Us since first reading it, and The Spirit Bares Its Teeth is a phenomenal, heart-wrenching book that shows Andrew is going from strength to strength. These are powerful books exploring important themes, done so with style, talent, and passion. I am delighted to be bringing them to the UK and introducing more readers to this brilliant author.”

White adds: “I can’t even begin to explain how exciting it is for my YA triplets—Hell Followed With Us, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, and the upcoming Compound Fracture—to journey to the UK together. These books have taken me a long way: from a young debut straight out of grad school to a two-time bestseller, from a young adult struggling with his identity to a happy, proudly autistic trans man. Even though these books have no concrete connections to each other within their stories, I’ve always thought of them as inseparable. For Daphne Press and Illumicrate to offer all of them a home across the pond is a dream come true.”
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Read the full announcement at: thebookseller.com/rights/daphne-press-signs-three-books-from-phenomenal-white

29/11/2023

We are hyped to share the UK cover for Merciless Saviors by H.E. Edgmon, sequel to Godly Heathens!

With illustration by Elena Masci and design by Jane Tibbetts, we hope you love it as much as we do!

Gem and the other q***r gods wake to find themselves returned to the Ether, in the bodies they had a thousand years prior. Now in a world deeply corrupted by a millennia of the Shade’s rule, they must all find how they fit into this new chaos. Alliances break and form as Gem and the others travel across their old kingdoms, having to decide the fate of not just this world, but all worlds.

🐍 Merciless Saviors releases in the UK in paperback and ebook on 23 April, and is available to preorder now: bit.ly/DP_MercilessSaviors