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@colinmurtagh.bsky.socialReposted by @canongate.co.ukThere is something rather wonderful about these little animations @canongate.co.uk have been putting out to go with the wonderful Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Whoever decided Alan Cumming should be the narrator deserves a raise.
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@canongate.co.ukTilda 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.ukOnly one day left to apply for this Marketing Assistant role based in our Edinburgh office. (Full-time, £26,000.) Details and how to apply: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/m...
@canongate.co.ukONE 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.ukA big new book from David Shrigley, the Turner Prize-nominated artist. CREATIVE WRITING is pure words, pure joy, pure Shrigley.
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@canongate.co.ukTHREE BROTHERS IN A BOAT is an adrenaline-soaked account of how the Maclean Brothers broke the world record for rowing non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. This book is awash with lessons in grit, determination and resilience.
@canongate.co.ukWe 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...
@brian-goldstone.bsky.socialReposted by @canongate.co.ukA nice surprise in the mail today: copies of the UK edition of There Is No Place for Us just arrived from @canongate.co.uk.
@thebookseller.comReposted by @canongate.co.ukCanongate has acquired L’Avventura, the first novel in 17 years by award-winning author Geoff Dyer. Canongate will publish in hardback in May 2027. 👇
@damianbarr.bsky.socialReposted by @canongate.co.uknote to self: always pack more socks than you think you need.
Paperback tour! @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social and many others! Thanks @canongate.co.uk
@sineadgleeson.bsky.socialReposted by @canongate.co.ukSuch a huge loss. Dillard was one of the greatest essayists. Read The Writers Life - and her brilliant essay about a solar eclipse (I always teach this in workshops) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
@thebookseller.comReposted by @canongate.co.ukCanongate has acquired Caryl Lewis’ debut non-fiction title Fferm: In Defence of Fragile Cultures. Canongate will publish in hardback and e-book in April 2027 with a paperback to follow 👇
@canongate.co.ukIt’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.
@thebookseller.comReposted by @canongate.co.ukCanongate will publish a series of newly commissioned true crime books edited by award-winning crime writer Denise Mina, with the first titles by Abir Mukherjee, AL Kennedy and Denise Mina to be published in pocket-sized hardback editions in June 2027. 👇
@caughtbytheriver.bsky.socialReposted by @canongate.co.uk'Her voice rivers between the loud and the quiet.'
August’s Book of the Month was @alycia.bsky.social’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’ (@canongate.co.uk) — a book that is its own body of water, writes Aileen Angsutorn Lees www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/shor...
@canongate.co.ukTOTEM 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 🎨🗿
@canongate.co.ukSimon 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 ✒️
@canongate.co.ukTHE 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 🕵️
@canongate.co.ukThe 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 🐇
@canongate.co.ukFull 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 🛍️
