From now on, royalties for all Canongate contracts will be paid four times a year rather than twice, getting money into authors’ and agents’ hands more regularly and more quickly.
We are receiving multiple messages every day from writers who have been targeted by fraudulent emails pretending to come from Canongate editors. Please be extremely wary of approaches like these. Here’s what to look out for.
If this Be Magic by Daniel Hahn – “a superbly diverting book about language and creativity” – is the Guardian’s book of the day.
Filled with “delight and endless curiosity … By the end of the book, Hahn has amply demonstrated not only the treasures of other languages, but also the rich and strange inexhaustibility of Shakespeare himself.”
Matt Haig’s bestselling new novel The Midnight Train is out now – and you can read the first chapter right here.
Prefer to listen? Listen to the extract from the audiobook as read by James Norton!
We are thrilled that two Canongate novels have been recognised by one of fiction’s most prestigious prizes: I.O. Echeruo’s The Comfort of Distant Stars and Tahmima Anam’s Uprising have both been named finalists for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
