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Five Dials is an online literary magazine published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books. It is run by a small group of editors who were keen to set up a publication that would focus simply on good writing, with no restrictions on style, genre or subject matter, and is designed to ‘promote and distribute quality writing which is unlikely to be printed elsewhere'.

The free monthly magazine, launched on 21st June 2008, is available for download as a pdf on the Five Dials website.

The name, Five Dials, refers to a small slum-like area of London destroyed to make room for the widening of the Charing Cross Road, which the Hamish Hamilton office overlooks.

Contributors are not confined to those published by Penguin Books or Hamish Hamilton and so far have included: Iain Sinclair, Alain de Botton, Rachel Lichtenstein, Gustave Flaubert, Roger Deakin, Jay Griffiths, Arthur Bradford, Raymond Chandler, David Rakoff, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sheila Heti, Jean-Paul Sartre, Noam Chomsky, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Joe Dunthorne, W. G. Sebald and J. M. G. Le Clézio, among others. The editor is writer and journalist Craig Taylor. and the designer Dean Allen.

External links:

Five Dials website

References:
 * The Bookseller
 * Five Dials
 * Stanley, M. (1878) Work About the Five Dials, London: Macmillan and Co
 * First Issue of Five Dials p.3
 * Interview Magazine on Five Dials