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  It's publication day for this wee stack of books: Us by Delia Smith There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone and The Country Schoolmaster by Kate Grenville You can find them all at your friendly local bookshop and online: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-today

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  A very happy publication day to Erin Somers (The Ten Year Affair) and Damian Barr (The Two Roberts)! The Two Roberts is a novel based on the true love between artists and outsiders Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun tracing them from 1930s Glasgow to wartime London. “Crackles with creative rebellion” Douglas Stuart https://canongate.co.uk/books/4965-the-two-roberts/ Two parents. Happily married. Just not to each other. The Ten Year Affair is a witty, emotionally-charged exploration of marria...

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  I recommended the Alasdair Gray short story Logopandocy to someone in the pub last night, and now I need to let them know that – although I stand by the recommendation – it is 60pp long and for much of that length it is willfully (if playfully) impenetrable. And that I will not take offense if they bounce off of it and do not even reach the part I described to them.

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  Reminded today of this quote from Robert Louis Stevenson. For anyone who has ever been told to write what they know. (Stevenson is writing in response to Henry James, who in his own essay ‘The Art of Fiction’ called Treasure Island “delightful”, but, Stevenson reports…) “He cannot criticise the author, as he goes, “because […] I have been a child, but I have never been on a quest for buried treasure.” Here is, indeed a wilful paradox; for if he has never been on a quest for buried treasure, it...

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  It’s Agatha Christie’s birthday! (136 years young, and still charming readers with tales of murder and mystery.) Read our interview with Cathy Rentzenbrink, who set herself the formidable task of reading every book Christie published, in order. (That's 72, only counting the crime novels, and there are others…) https://canongate.substack.com/p/i-did-sometimes-feel-a-bit-deranged

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  Have just learned the word 'Wimmelbilder' ('teeming picture') to refer to the style of illustration where the page is covered in characters and detail.

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  We publish these three books today: A big new book from David Shrigley, the Turner Prize-nominated artist, CREATIVE WRITING is pure words, pure joy, pure Shrigley. THREE BROTHERS IN A BOAT is an adrenaline-soaked account of how the Maclean Brothers broke the world record for rowing non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. This book is awash with lessons in grit, determination and resilience. and ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS is the internationally critically acclaimed and bestselli...

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  Only one day left to apply for this Marketing Assistant role based in our Edinburgh office. (Full-time, £26,000.) Details and how to apply: https://canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/marketing-assistant/

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  Tilda Swinton is one of the most celebrated actors of her generation. She is also an iconoclast, an artist, a style icon and, now, an author. Her characteristically original first book, Material Evidence, tells the story of her remarkable life. Find out all about it: https://canongate.co.uk/tilda-swinton-announcement/ Author photo by Brigitte Lacombe.

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  We publish two new books today: Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne is about great, important contributions to arts and science that, at first, failed. Genius that went un-celebrated, unrecognised, until it wasn't (often much, much later). What makes some ideas go to sleep? And what wakes them up? If you've read How Music Works, you know what a fascinating writer David Byrne is (besides all his other achievements). https://canongate.co.uk/books/4955-sleeping-beauties-why-good-id...

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  With no offence meant to my colleagues, I'm going to start a petition to extend Frankfurt Book Fair by a month to keep everyone nice and busy so I can get work done.

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  Writers: please be aware of scammers impersonating Canongate editors https://canongate.co.uk/news/writers-please-be-aware-of-scammers-impersonating-canongate-editors/

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  Our #introduction to #bookstodon! Hello, we are Canongate Books, an independent #publisher of an eclectic mix of #authors for an eclectic and discerning audience of readers. You might know us from the spines of: Life of Pi by Yann Martel Lanark by Alasdair Gray The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat The Outrun by Amy Liptrot & many, many more. We're based in Edinburgh and London, and next year we&am...

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  A public service announcement for writers: please be very wary of scams. Canongate editors use email addresses from @canongate.co.uk and will not email you from other accounts. We have heard several accounts recently of people who have been contacted by malicious actors claiming to be real Canongate editors. The scammers have expressed enthusiasm for the writer’s work and led them on with the ultimate goal of extracting money from them. This has even involved including other seemingly legitimat...

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  Congratulations to the wonderful Katie Goh, whose fascinating and idiosyncratic (in the best possible way) Foreign Fruit – a personal history of the orange – has been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. 'A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it' Katherine May Available now in bookshops and online: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/415/9781837261178

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  Happy Gray Day to all that celebrate! (And all should celebrate.) Delighted to be in Glasgow for the 6th annual celebration of the work of writer and artist Alasdair Gray. We publish today, for the first time, an unabridged audiobook of his debut and one of a good handful of masterpieces he can claim, the epic, mad miraculous Lanark. Narrated by Alan Cumming, with contributions from Angus King and archive audio of Alasdair himself

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  @ultrazool there's always next year! (And plenty of time to get the tattoo in the meantime...)

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  We're thrilled to announce Lily King‘ HEART THE LOVER has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction! Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today. 'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time...

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  Congratulations to Charlotte McConaghy on WILD DARK SHORE which is longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction! A spectacularly choreographed eco-thriller traversing nature and human frailty – full of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty and ferocious love, WILD DARK SHORE is a novel not to be missed ‘I am in awe. I am in love. I am heartbroken. All of it possible, all at once, after a book as extraordinary as this one’ CLARE DAVERLEY ‘Breathtaking’ HANNAH KENT ‘Spellbinding’ Washington Post...

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  Out today! SON OF NOBODY, the brand new novel from Yann Martel, Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi. 'A meditation on mythmaking, homemaking and storytelling' Guardian 'Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker' Ursula K. Le Guin Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing...

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  We’re publishing so many great books today that this isn’t even the full lot (there’s also three other books by Margaret Drabble joining our Canons list)! Happy publication day to them all! Available in your friendly neighbourhood bookshop and online: https://bookshop.org/lists/out-today A Whole Life – Robert Seethaler The Last Movement – Robert Seethaler The Café with No Name – Robert Seethaler Foreign Fruit – Katie Goh Nature's Genius – David Farrier Food Fight – Stuart Gillespie Lo...