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This is where we exist across the web and social media: 🔗 canongate.co.uk 📨 canongate.co.uk/newsletter 🦣 bookish.community/@canongatebooks 📸 instagram.com/canongatebooks 🧓 facebook.com/canongate 📹 tiktok.com/@canongatebooks and here.

canongate.co.ukCanongate – independent, award-winning book publisherWe’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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Amy Liptrot's new book The Tangles is a wonderful, immersive, powerful book. On Orkney Amy writes about birth & death, science & folklore. The magic of selkie & seaweed are elementally entangled with family life, with hope & love. I loved it 🤗 The Tangles is ublished next Feb @canongate.co.uk

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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: canongate.co.uk/tilda-swinto...

canongate.co.ukCanongate acquires Tilda Swinton’s first book, Material EvidenceTilda 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.
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We publish these three books today: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Creative Writing by David Shrigley Three Brothers in a Boat by The Maclean Brothers It's an exceptional, eclectic bunch. Find them now at your local bookshop or uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

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ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS is the internationally critically acclaimed and bestselling book from the award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad. Winner of the National Book Award for Non-fiction. Winner of the Palestine Book Awards. canongate.co.uk/books/5424-o...

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We publish these three books today: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Creative Writing by David Shrigley Three Brothers in a Boat by The Maclean Brothers It's an exceptional, eclectic bunch. Find them now at your local bookshop or uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...

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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. canongate.substack.com/p/i-did-some...

canongate.substack.com“Life is delivering enough in the way of challenge and fear – I want books to be calming.”Why did you decide to read all of Agatha Christie’s books in the order they were published?
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Simon Garfield brings us a fascinating history of humanity with THE PEN, imbuing an object we use every day with stories that reveal it is far more than just a writing tool ✒️

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TOTEM is a beautiful and very human history of sculpture taking us across the globe - renowned art historian Jo Baring takes us from ancient Mayan pyramids to Yayoi Kusama and Barbara Hepworth, with 70 specially commissioned black-and-white illustrations inside 🎨🗿

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The children’s edition of RAISING HARE, Chloe Dalton’s Wainwright Prize-winning story about her discovery of a baby hare and the friendship that forms between them, is out now with a postscript by Michael Morpurgo and more gorgeous illustrations by Denise Nestor @chloedalton.bsky.social 🐇

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THE AGATHA CHRISTIE CURE is a moving memoir that reveals how Cathy Rentzenbrink fell back in love with reading through delving into Agatha Christie’s novels, unearthing the secrets of how she survived a personal crisis and started life again 🕵️

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THE GOOD IMMIGRANT, a groundbreaking essay collection from 21 writers of colour, changed the conversation on race in Britain when it was first published. This 10-year anniversary edition, edited by @nikeshshukla.bsky.social with a new intro by Candice Carty-Williams, is even more important today

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Full of the glamour and excess of the nineties, I SHOP THEREFORE I AM is Mary Portas’ juicy account of how she transformed Harvey Nichols from a dying department store into a fashion sensation, out now in paperback 🛍️

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The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition is out this week, 10th Sept with @canongate.co.uk @nikeshshukla.bsky.social - exactly 10yrs to the day of its 2016 post-Brexit release. I felt like making a bookstack of TGI contributors works @bookshop.org check it out > uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-go...

uk.bookshop.orgThe Good Immigrant, 10th Anniversary Edition, further reading...The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain - Canons (Paperback) Publishing this week, September 10th 2026. Edited by Nikesh Shukla with a new introduction by Candice Carty-...
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Meet Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: artists, lovers, outsiders. From 1930s Glasgow to wartime London, THE TWO ROBERTS is a captivating novel inspired by their wild lives, shortlisted for the Nero Book Award ‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ DOUGLAS STUART

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A witty, emotionally-charged exploration of marriage, family life and the roads not taken, THE TEN YEAR AFFAIRS asks: do we really want our fantasies to come true? ‘I devoured it. It was completely exhilarating!’ CATHERINE NEWMAN ‘Sociologically acute and slyly entertaining’ New York Times

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SHORELINES by Alycia Pirmohamed Thrumming with poetic vitality and questions about the legacies of migration, Shorelines is the prize-winning non-fiction debut by Alycia Pirmohamed ‘A truly original take on migration, family and faith’ NOREEN MASUD, author of A FLAT PLACE

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LITTLE SPARK by Jess Kidd A Victorian-era mystery of sublime invention - with a twist you won't see coming. Little Spark is gothic suspense at its finest ‘Little Spark is deliciously dark and twisty and keeps the reader guessing until the final pages. Marvellous.’ RUTH HOGAN

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THE IMMORTAL SISTERHOOD by Gemma Cairney The award-winning broadcaster and writer explores the collective power and wisdom to be found in the lives of twelve remarkable women. 'Gemma's mind is a thing of wonder. Reading her love for these crucial legacies is like falling under a spell' AFUA HIRSCH

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THE POWER OF NO by Anna Holmes A powerful, patriarchy-defying manifesto that will transform your relationship to saying ‘no’ – from the award-winning writer, co-founder of Jezebel and former New York Times advice columnist ‘Sharp-eyed and inquisitive’ REBECCA TRAISTER, author of GOOD AND MAD

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BREADWINNERS by Melissa Hogenboom The must-read book on how to address the power dynamics in your work, life and love by award-winning science journalist Melissa Hogenboom. ‘Fascinating and enraging’ NEW SCIENTIST

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SWALLOWS by Natsuo Kirino Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic, witty vision of contemporary Japan by Natsuo Kirino, acclaimed author of the smash hit OUT. ‘The relentless beauty of her stories leaves me breathless every time’ MIEKO KAWAKAMI

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It is the weekend and I wouldn't be here talking to you if I didn't have exciting news to share, but I do and I am: WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE canongate.co.uk Please have a nosey. (It's been finely calibrated to be one of the most nosey-able sites out there.)

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... Willie Nelson is 93, and he has not been slowing down. In the past 12 years, he has recorded twenty-one new studio albums, written more than fifty new songs and seven books, and headlined over eight hundred live shows. What has been going on?..

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...He’s not going to get mawkish about it, but he does have some thoughts. With his trademark downhome wit, he opens up wide and brings us in touch with the same inexhaustible, vital stream of energy he has learned how to stay tapped into.

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In THE LAST LEAF, Nelson shares his well-earned wisdom about reaching an astonishing creative flourishing, and not coincidentally, an even deeper union with the love of his life, Annie...

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@canongate.co.uk Preorder our Frank Miller special Tripwire print mag now with a reprint of our classic Studio interview of the man too trpwire1001.bigcartel.com/product/trip...

trpwire1001.bigcartel.comTripwire summer 2026 issue PreorderUnder a Frank Miller cover, Tripwire talks to the legendary creator about a life in comics in the year that he brings out his autobiography, Push The Wall. Tripwire also takes a look back at his semin...