“How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep that a secret? This book is how.”

My Name Is Why

Lemn Sissay

“He’s not a copper who happens to be a man. He’s a man who happens to be a copper, and he carries that weight with him everywhere he goes.”

The Dark Remains

Ian Rankin & William McIlvanney

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Night Boat to Tangier

Kevin Barry

“Barry, winner of the Impac Dublin literary award for City of Bohane and the Goldsmiths prize for Beatlebone, is a clairvoyant narrator of the male psyche and a consistent lyrical visionary. The prose is a caress, rolling out in swift, spaced paragraphs, a telegraphese of fleeting consciousness…”

Alan Warner reviews Night Boat to Tangier in the Guardian.

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Indie Bookshop Week #6

It’s the final stop on our Indie Bookshop Week tour of Edinburgh! And it’s another not-yet-opened shop! Topping & Co were kind enough to sneak us a peek of their amazing and very under-construction space…

@canongatebooks • 22 Jun 2019

Indie Bookshop Week #5

Stop 5 on our indie bookshop tour of Edinburgh – The Portobello Bookshop! Not only does Edinburgh already have an amazingly lively independent bookshop scene, but it’s set to get even better…

@canongatebooks • 21 Jun 2019

Indie Bookshop Week #4

Indie Bookshop Week tour of Edinburgh continues! Day 4 – Lighthouse Bookshop, in Edinburgh’s Southside. Lighthouse Books is a radical bookshop…

@canongatebooks • 21 Jun 2019

The People’s Act of Love Canon photograph
Indie Bookshop Week #3

It’s the 3rd stop on our Indie Bookshop Week tour of Edinburgh! Typewronger Books…

@canongatebooks • 18 Jun 2019

Chris Mould Truth Pixie 2 preview

The Truth Pixie returns…

@ChrisMouldInk • 18 Jun 2019

Indie Bookshop Week #2

Our tour of the indie bookshops of Edinburgh continues! Day 2 – Golden Hare Books in Stockbridge. Golden Hare do everything with the same aplomb with which they fake-read for Instagram photos (thanks Jonathan!). So much so that they only won INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP OF THE YEAR at the British Book Awards this year. And richly deserved too…

@canongatebooks • 17 Jun 2019

Indie Bookshop Week #1

It’s INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK! So this week we’re going to do an Instagram tour of the excellent indie bookshops of Edinburgh (because we’re lucky enough to have a home city that ABOUNDS with them – with even more on the way – and all staffed with wonderful people). Beginning with The Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield…

@canongatebooks • 17 Jun 2019

The Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing

The Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing

Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain audiobook read by Tilda Swinton to be released

Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain audiobook read by Tilda Swinton to be released

Evie posters and bookmarks

If you’d like an Evie and the Animals poster, whether it’s to decorate your bedroom or a bookshop, we’ve got one that you can download and print! And bookmarks too!

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Murmur by Will Eaves wins the Wellcome Prize!

Murmur by Will Eaves wins the Wellcome Prize!

Publication day Instagram post 2 May 2019

It’s publication day for this quartet of goodness. What an astonishing collection of books; what a group of writers!

@canongatebooks • 2 May 2019

The Ice House

Tim Clare

‘The events of The Honours changed her. Time has changed her. So how can you have that continuity while ensuring she’s not this static pastiche of the original character? It took a lot of ink, a lot of scenes which didn’t make it to the final draft, and a lot of listening and reflecting to really find her voice.’ Tim Clare reflects on his protagonist’s changes leading into The Ice House in an interview with the Qwillery.

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The Qwillery

Waterstones Thriller of the Month tweet

Award-winning crime writer Chris Brookmyre and anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman have paired up under the pseudonym of Ambrose Parry to deliver a vividly-drawn historical novel - our unputdownable Thriller of the Month, The Way of All Flesh. Discover it here.

@Waterstones • 1 May 2019

Making Evil – how to behave online
Tim Clare Foyles event tweet

Hey pals. Me & Joe Dunthorne are doing a live show at Foyles this Thursday. Celebrating the launch of The Ice House & hosting a session for writers. Bring your work & we might workshop it on stage!

@TimClarePoet • 29 Apr 2019

Samin Nosrat is on the 2019 Time 100 list

“She wins you over immediately with an irresistible combination of warmth, honesty, deep understanding of cooking and that ebullient laugh of hers. If anyone can show us how to cook, it is Samin.”

Alice Waters has written about Samin Nosrat and the wonders of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat for Time’s list of their 100 most influential people.

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Alice Waters

Time

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Things in Jars – Mrs Devine card

Outpost

Dan Richards

“These isolated, precarious refuges, at once exposed and welcoming, allow Richards to interrogate ideas of home and escape, of safety and adventure, all in a narrative whose principal pleasure is the time the reader gets to spend in the author’s amiable, erudite, Tiggerish company … Richards is often compared to his friend Rober Macfarlane, but his voice is much closer to that of Geoff Dyer: vivid, self-deprecating, literary and very, very funny.”

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Alex Preston

Observer

Benjami Zephaniah photo tweet

Happiness is 5 books. All sent to me by @canongatebooks And what makes this even more special is that four of them were already on my ‘to buy’ list. I’ve started to read the other one and that should have been on my list. Books. You can’t beat them.

@BZephaniah • 1 Apr 2019

Canongate acquires UK & Commonwealth rights to Flash Count Diary by Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary is coming in July 2019 

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