‘Books like this come along once in a generation … It all hangs together perfectly to form the kind of next-level literature that inspires, even incites another generation of natural-born wordsmiths to write big and bold and put in the work it takes to become a beast.’
Steve Earle
The New York Times
A beautiful trailer for The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam.
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Watch the trailer for What Happened Miss Simone? on Netflix
Canongate’s own Jamie Byng interview’s Gil Scott-Heron in 2010. This year would have marked Gil’s 68th birthday. His posthumously published, indelible memoir The Last Holiday is now a Canon.
“Picasso said a picture hung crookedly on a wall tells you a lot more about the owner than a straight one ever could; he said he preferred crooked pictures. He knew, of course, we are all crooked pictures, busy in the lifelong pursuit of straightening ourselves, yet it is the straight picture we strive to portray.”
Thomas Page McBee, author of Amateur, was the first transgender man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. This is the story of how that happened.
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian from 1995-2015 and author of Breaking News, on experiencing the complete upheaval of the news business from the inside.
Read Like a Writer with our new podcast
We’ve launched a new podcast together with Faber and Serpent’s Tail: called Read Like a Writer, it’s a celebration of authors, books and independent bookshops. The first episode featured our very own Matt Haig (author of the number one bestseller Notes on a Nervous Planet). And episode number two was with E. Foley & B. Coates, authors of What Would Boudica Do? from Faber. Subscribe to Read Like a Writer through your favourite podcast app now!
David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
“A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs” – the Guardian reviews Room to Dream.
P.D. Smith
Guardian
