About Double Dutch

Double Dutch is an independent press and reading room for the overlooked and the fascinating. We publish a small, deliberate list of our own, and we curate and champion deep-cut books from independent presses worldwide — the extraordinary titles that never got the marketing budget and so never reached the front table.

Our conviction is simple: the most rewarding books are rarely the ones an algorithm puts in front of you. Recommendation engines optimize for the safe bet — the title ten thousand people already bought. We optimize for the right book for you, even if only a thousand people have found it. That is the whole reason the reading room exists.

The lens

We follow curiosity wherever it leads — fiction in translation, the history of science, the history of cities and strange obsessions — always through one lens: the overlooked and the fascinating, whatever the subject.

The clerk

The Underread is our reading-room clerk. Describe a book you love, or the feeling you're chasing, and it pulls a genuine match from a curated corpus. It never invents a title to flatter you.

The people

Double Dutch was founded by Thamer Al Hejailan, who also writes fiction under the pen name T.H. Hammer. It is an imprint of Lionhead Global.

If this is your kind of room, join the reading room — one overlooked book lands in your inbox each week.