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JOB ALERT!

Canongate is looking for both a Publicity Assistant and a Deputy Publicity Director (maternity) to join our team, in Edinburgh or London.

Full details for both roles are on our website, so if you or someone you know might be interested, please do take a look: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs

Delighted that I’ll be at @lighthousebks.bsky.social to talk about Together: A Manifesto Against A Heartless World. Come and we talk about how we stay humane in these inhumane times. 20th of August. @canongate.co.uk

Korean American author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief and Psychopomp Maria Dong's AVIARY, a blend of psychological suspense, gothic fantasy, queer longing, and body horror, in which an undocumented woman in South Korea steals her dead sister's identity to move to the US and take part in an art program for underserved minorities-but the trip soon turns into a nightmare, as her destination is no ordinary art school and her sister's death was definitely not of natural causes, to Rachel Slatter at Severn House, for publication in April 2026, by Amy Bishop-Wycisk at Trellis Literary Management

It's FRIDAAAAYYY! 🎉

We're kicking off the weekend with the SUPER exciting announcement that Severn House will be publishing Maria Dong newest book AVIARY 🦅

A twisted blend of #bodyhorror #gothicfantasy and #psychologicalsuspense. Hitting the shelves April 2026

@mariadongwrites.bsky.social

Clear Light by Alan Spence - Canongate Books Clear Light by Alan Spence - paperback (9781841956640) published by Canongate. 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence’s characteristic verve and wit.

the rain has stopped
but still it’s falling
under the trees

—Alan Spence
published in CLEAR LIGHT, @canongate.co.uk 2012
#WorldRainDay 🌧️
3/3
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Keep your cool! It's Heatwave, the latest BfS issue!
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Thanks for your contributions: @florisbooks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @birlinn.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @luathpress.bsky.social @bwpublishing.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social and more!

Cover of I Shop, Therefore I Am by Mary Portas

💙📚 Can't wait to read about Mary Portas's recollections of the 90s,
and how she turned "Harvey Nicks" into an era-defining global brand destination.

Thanks to @canongate.co.uk and #Netgalley for the advance copy.

#booksky

👀 IT’S HERE!

Listen for the first time or relive FICTION FIRST, wherever you get your podcasts.

@judecook.bsky.social @jackaldane.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @serpents-tail.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

A 25% off “physics for cats” promotion at Waterstones.com 28-31 July 2025.

Preorder PHYSICS FOR CATS this week at @waterstones and get 25% discount with the code SUMMER25:
www.waterstones.com/book/physics... @canongate.co.uk

Waterstones’ 25% off preorders promotion running from today until Thursday 31st July!

Available to all customers on the Waterstones website and app, enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer and receive 25% off RRP

#WPreorder #ReadCanongate

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Image of cover art for my poetry book, red with orange flames, white letters of the title 'With Love, Grief and Fury' -- text reads -- NEW paperback edition, pre-order available now, published by Canongate and in your favourite bookshops 09 Oct 2025

Beautiful paperback edition of my latest poetry collection 'With Love, Grief and Fury' is on the way with a bright new cover, published by @canongate.co.uk and in all of your favourite bookshops on 9 October 2025, pre-order available via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - uk.bookshop.org/p/books/with...

A family on a remote island. A Mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.

WILD DARK SHORE is here in eBook & Audiobook! A spectacularly choreographed eco-thriller traversing nature and human frailty – full of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty and ferocious love. Publishing in paperback November 6th

Discover your next obsession: buythebook.online/wild-dark-sh...

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel | Buy the Book “The past is never done with: always the song continues” Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford ...

We're thrilled to reveal the beautiful global cover for Son of Nobody by Yann Martel, designed by Canongate Art's Rafi Romaya alongside our partners @wwnorton.com @textpublishing.bsky.social and Knopf Canada

We publish on 2nd April 2026, and you can pre-order now: buythebook.online/son-of-nobody

In this masterpiece of myth, history and domesticity, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them and how we live - then, now and always.

Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love and grief.

An extract from Son of Nobody against a leathery blue background. it reads 'I am here because of Psoas of Midea Son of Nobody’

He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea but known to all as 'son of nobody'.

As sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen.

Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.

In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself.

The cover of Son of Nobody, the new novel from Yann Martel, against a blue leathery background

The past is never done with: always the song continues

Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it....

buythebook.online/son-of-nobody

This is very kind and nice, but we wouldn't want to take a small presses' space! We're very much a medium-sized fully established independent

I am appalling at chess. I play it every day & get no better. But it gives so much & is such a beautiful bridge to connect humans. You don't need to be skilled at games to enjoy them. 'Being good at chess' can also mean having the capacity to derive joy from it, regardless of your level.

Author of the Jersey Girl legal mysteries and the Fran & Ken Stein mysteries Jeff Cohen writing as EJ Copperman's OLD FLAMES and HOW TO KILL A GHOST, books two and three in the Haunted Paint Store series of cozy mysteries, featuring a young woman who inherits her late father's business, only to find the premises are haunted by her dad's ghost-and team up with him to solve murders, to Rachel Slatter at Severn House, with Tina Pietron editing, in a two-book deal, for publication in August 2026 and February 2027, by Josh Getzler at HG Literary (world English). josh@hgliterary.com

Happy Monday Everybody!

We are SUPER excited to start the new week with not one but TWO new book announcements from E.J. Copperman!

Severn Houses will be publishing book two and three in the Haunted Paint Store series of cozy mysteries 👻🎨

The hardback copy of The Game Changers by Tim Clare, sitting on a wooden table with colourful game pieces and dice surrounding it. The cover resembles a board game face with arrow, dots and geometric shapes in colours of blue, red, green, yellow and white.

"A game, after all, is not an object. It is an event. Chess is not a collection of carved pieces. Chess is the series of transactions that take place when two people sit down either side of a board and bring those pieces to life. The game’s material components only give hints of what those transactions might be." quote by Tim Clare from The Game Changers

Happy #InternationalChessDay!

Why is playing games a universal human instinct?
Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations?
And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more fulfilled?

THE GAME CHANGERS by @timclare.bsky.social is available now! ♟️

‘Bitingly funny, inkwell black and surprisingly tender’ ADAM KAY, author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT

‘Niven is on fine form, inventive and excruciatingly funny, but beneath his darkly comic prose lurks a hitherto unseen tenderness’ Mail on Sunday

A hardback copy of The Fathers by John Niven floating against a grey background

Happy publication day @nivenj1.bsky.social! THE FATHERS is out now in all good bookshops & online: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

A hilarious and heart-breaking account of fatherhood, marriage, parenting, grief, class and masculinity, following two fathers from very different backgrounds

The trade paperback cover for Swallows by Natsuo Kirinon sitting against a grey background

What price would you put on your body?

We're delighted to share the cover for Swallows by Natsuo Kirino. Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, its the story of a young woman’s fight to preserve her dignity – at any cost. Pre-order:

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Canongate plunges for Amy Liptrot's 'illuminating' book on seaweed Canongate makes a dive for Amy Liptrot's The Tangles, a new book about seaweed.

Dip your head beneath the waves – THE TANGLES, from Amy Liptrot (bestselling author of The Outrun) is coming. An illuminating exploration into miraculous seaweeds, blending ecology, history and memoir, it gives us new eyes to look at this fascinating organism

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Sad news to see any small pres closing – especially one with the brilliance and creativity of 404 Ink – but a huge achievement to have made it 10 years.

Looking *pretty cute*

Also, a *prime* time to see if your fave indie has an online home for all those vibes that charmed you in person...

Lighthouse, for instance, has curated book lists, sales, blogs, bookseller recs & a whole library of past events to watch back 😉

lighthousebookshop.com/posts

Culture 5 with Derek O'Connor Beat the Lotto in cinemas nationwide; The Beacon at the Everyman Theatre, Cork; the debut collection from Waterford author Rose Keating Oddbody; "From Dickie to Richard" exhibition in the Hunt Museum,...

Derek O'Connor of RTÉ Culture @rte.ie included Oddbody, debut story collection by @rosekeating.bsky.social in his Five Culture Picks. We're in agreement about this great book & we'll see Rose WCLF 15 July @canongate.co.uk
🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/griffin-keating/
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In my tiny opinion, they missed an absolute trick not calling that article 'The Sus Path' to be honest

Beginner’s pluck: English teacher and Waterford native Rose Keating These weird, unsettling stories in 'Oddbody' focused on the body explore themes of desire, anxiety, and shame. How far can the human form be pushed and subverted?

"Playful, funny, and provocative, these stories are strangely compulsive." Oddbody is a fabulous debut collection of stories from @rosekeating.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk. Rose will read at WCLF alongside @griffski.bsky.social on 15 July in a must see event
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