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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · Nov 18
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and here.
Canongate – independent, award-winning book publisher
We’re committed to vital and innovative writing, both fiction and non-fiction. We’ve won publisher of the year twice, but we don’t like to talk about it.
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✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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We’re delighted to share the cover for THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, a time travelling love story from @matthaig.bsky.social, multi-million copy bestselling author of The Midnight Library!
The cover for The Midnight Train, the new novel from international bestseller Matt Haig, arriving 21 May 2026
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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What if we ride out tonight?
What if we ride out and never once look back?

Kevin Barry‘s savagely funny, achingly beautiful Western THE HEART IN WINTER has won the Historical Writer's Association Gold Crown Award! Congratulations Kevin!

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A paperback copy of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, floating against a grey background
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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📚 Looking for a good read?
@drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social) shares more about one of her favourite books on this BBC Sounds podcast.
A Good Read - Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem - BBC Sounds
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
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November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Congratulations @canongate.co.uk for winning Debut Non-fiction Book of the Year last night with Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh. #saltirebookawards
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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damianbarr.bsky.social
Some lovely news. Somewhere Bobby and Robert are celebrating!

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and thank you to the judges and Nero and to @canongate.co.uk and my agent Clare Conville and to every bookseller, librarian and reader for giving my story space.
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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FOREIGN FRUIT is a beautiful memoir from Katie Goh which uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit – the orange – to reckon with her identity and unpack themes of globalisation, colonialism and migration

We’re delighted to see it chosen as the Saltire Awards Non-Fiction Debut of the Year!
A hardback copy of Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh next to a riso-print of the cover, floating against a grey background
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Delighted to share the news that Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social's THE TWO ROBERTS has been shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards in the fiction category, congratulations Damian!

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The Two Roberts by Damian Barr, a hardback book standing against a grey background, with a roundel displaying 'shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards'
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Happy PUBLICATION DAY to these four incredible books!

WORDS ARE MY MATTER – Ursula K Le Guin
WILD DARK SHORE – Charlotte McConaghy
BORDERLINE FICTION – Derek Owusu
THE NORTH SEA – Alistair Moffat

All available now at your favourite local bookshop (and online:) uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...
A stack of books published today floating against a grey background
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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RAISING HARE, Chloe Dalton's magical true story of caring for an injured hare has won the @booksaremybag.bsky.social Readers Award for Non-Fiction!

Congratulations @chloedalton.bsky.social, and thank you to the readers and booksellers who've connected with Hare.
#ReadersAwards #ChooseBookshops
A paperback copy of Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton sitting against a grey background
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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If you need to listen something calm and thoughtful, here’s @fieldzine.bsky.social podcast with me. Many thanks to #SamField for being who he is. open.spotify.com/episode/6w8O... #HowToLoseACountry #Together via @canongate.co.uk
Field Ramble with Ece Temelkuran
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October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Join Mary Portas at Bookbar on Monday 3 November! Mary will be discussing ‘I shop, Therefore I am,’ her candid and funny memoir of her time at Harvey Nicks in the 90s published by @canongate.co.uk. Snap up the last few tickets for what should be a fabulous evening! www.bookbaruk.com/event-detail...
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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We’re thrilled to share the news that Helena Bonham Carter is the audiobook narrator for Holly Dawson’s All of Us Atoms, published today in audiobook!
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Heart the Lover by Lily King review – a love story to treasure
Heart the Lover by Lily King review – a love story to treasure
A companion novel to the brilliant Writers & Lovers, this delightfully witty tale of college romance matures into midlife poignancy
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Huge congratulations to Feryal Ali-Gauhar, AN ABUNDANCE OF WILD ROSES has won the 2025 @banffcentre.bsky.social Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival Mountain Fiction & Poetry Award!

‘The language sings, weaving a spell’ @wasafirimag.bsky.social
An Abundance of Wild Roses: 2025 Mountain Fiction & Poetry Awawrd Winner: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Happy PUBLICATION DAY to these four wonders!

THAT BEAUTIFUL ATLANTIC WALTZ – Malachy Tallack
AQUA – Chiara Barzini
THE PENELOPIAD – @margaretatwood.bsky.social
WRITING CREATIVITY & SOUL – Sue Monk Kidd

All available now in your favourite local bookshop, and online
uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...
a stack of books published today, floating against a grey background
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Delighted to be publishing TOTEM, the new book from art historian Jo Baring about the human story of sculpture across the globe and throughout history

www.thebookseller.com/rights/canon...
Canongate snaps up Jo Baring's look at sculpture
Canongate has acquired Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture by art historian Jo Baring, which “animates the human story of sculpture across the globe and throughout history, asking what it says about ...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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"You knew I'd write a book about you someday..."

Happy Publication Day to @lilyking.bsky.social and her instant NYT bestseller, Heart the Lover! An achingly beautiful novel of desire, friendship, loss and the lasting impact of first love.

Pick up your copy today: buythebook.online/heart-the-lo...
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Tomorrow evening!
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Announcing THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, the new novel from @matthaig.bsky.social, to publish in May 2026.
A time travelling love story from the world of The Midnight Library, it's available to pre-order here buythebook.online/the-midnight...
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Some days, the algorithm really is your friend:
A screenshot from Bluesky, showing a post about a dark secret coming back to haunt you - accompanied by a picture of an adorable dog in knitwear, sitting up in bed looking happy. Directly below it is a Canongate post about Alex Preston’s new book, A Stranger in Corfu, which deals with a very similar subject (but with fewer dogs).
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Excited to reveal the cover for A Stranger in Corfu - a spy novel with a difference!

Following former MI6 agents, who are living in enforced retirement in Corfu when their pasts come back to haunt them, it’s a vivid reimagining of a true slice of British Intelligence history, told with huge skill.
alexpreston.bsky.social Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · Oct 14
So thrilled that @canongate.co.uk will be publishing A Stranger in Corfu in February. A retirement home for spies, secrets that rise up from the past, the beauty of Greece. @waterstones.bsky.social are offering a big preorder discount on the hardback here: buythebook.online/astrangerinc...
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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❤️💜✨ Here's some photos to say thank you to everyone who came to our ‘With Love, Grief and Fury’ gig at Libreria, thanks to @nikitagil for asking the big questions and for reading beautifully, thanks to everyone that shared the love. Thank you to mighty @canongate.co.uk
it was a beautiful night! Xx
Salena and Nikita in Libreria Bookshop Salena and Nikita in Libreria Bookshop Salena Godden reading from with love, grief and fury Book cover: Red paperback of with love, grief and fury
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Lovely profile here www.thebookseller.com/author-inter...
Erin Somers’ latest novel explores marriage and the boundaries between fantasy and reality
The Ten Year Affair started life as a short story before Somers expanded it into a novel.
www.thebookseller.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Delighted to see Erin Somers on the cover of today's Bookseller ahead of her new novel THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR coming out in January!
canongate.co.uk/books/5417-t...
somers.bsky.social Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · Oct 10
Gm I am on the cover of The Bookseller @canongate.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM