Five Dials

Five Dials was a literary magazine published by Hamish Hamilton from 2008–2023.

Its sixty-six issues featured contributions from a wide array of writers and illustrators, including W.G. Sebald, Ali Smith, Geoff Dyer, Candice Carty-Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Javier Marías, Joe Dunthorne, Sophie Mackintosh, Richard McGuire, Zadie Smith, Stanley Donwood, Robert Macfarlane, Noam Chomsky, Lydia Davis, Bernardine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid, and many more.

We’ve stopped publishing new issues, but each PDF is available to download for free in our archive.

To see a collection of Five Dials posters designed by Nat Damm, click here.

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