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- Congratulations to Molly Aitken! BRIGHT I BURN, her blazing tale of power, patriarchy and sexuality, based on the true story of the first woman in Ireland to have been condemned as a witch, has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award!
- Reposted by CanongateI'm so overwhelmed, I cannae believe this. My heart is so full. Thank you to everyone who believed in me, especially when I didn't believe in myself. 💙🏴
- Our next winner is Len Pennie, taking home the Book of the Year: Discover award for poyums (Canongate) ✒️ “Reading this is an experience that transcends sexuality, race and gender,” said one judge #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
- Reposted by CanongateOur next winner is Len Pennie, taking home the Book of the Year: Discover award for poyums (Canongate) ✒️ “Reading this is an experience that transcends sexuality, race and gender,” said one judge #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
- We’re delighted to share the news that @lenniesaurus.bsky.social’s debut collection POYUMS has won the Discover Award at the 2025 British Book Awards #Nibbies @thebookseller.com It’s a bold, powerful collection which confronts prejudice and misogyny, and we couldn’t be prouder to publish it! 🔥
- Reposted by CanongateHappy Friday Everybody! 🌞 Kicking off the Weekend with the SUPER exciting announcement of the THIRD book in the British Stately Home cozy mystery series by Amy Myers! MURDER IN THE WINGS is a warm-hearted amateur-sleuth story set in a cozy cafe, on the grounds of quirky stately home🏰
- Reposted by CanongateCONGRATULATIONS to these seven wonderful books and authors on their publication this week! 🎉 SHOT CLOCK ⏰ A COLD WHISPER 🌬️ FALSE GOLD 👑 A SENIOR CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO LIFE ON THE RUN 👵🏻 DEATH ON WOLF FELL 🐺 MURDER IN THE GROTTO ☕ A FATAL NECESSITY 🐦⬛ severnhouse.com/cozy-mysteri...
- Reposted by CanongateCongrats to all those publishers shortlisted for the @babooksellers.bsky.social #IndieBookAwards including @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social, @canongate.co.uk @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-b...
- Delighted to see The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry's magical and haunting runaway outlaws novel on the shortlist for Fiction Book of the Year at the Indie Book Awards 2025! www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-b...
- Reposted by CanongateWent into @WStonesArgyleST to hold up a sign. It's a living....anyway if you like the book I would be delighted if you would vote. bit.ly/TOPCNOTY25.
- Happy publication day to 5 brilliant books! TOGETHER – @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social THIS IS HOW YOU REMEMBER IT – Catherine Prasifka ALL OF US ATOMS – Holly Dawson FOREIGN FRUIT – Katie Goh NATURE'S GENIUS – @david-farrier.bsky.social All available now: uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...
- Reposted by CanongateBEHOLD THE HOTNESS! The finger in his mouth, the brushstrokes, the FONT! The Two Roberts hardback, designed by Stephen Parker @canongate.co.uk We need more big gay love stories. Please support this one, and make more room for more, by pre-ordering if you can. www.damianbarr.com/latest/2025/...
- We are delighted to reveal the cover for @damianbarr.bsky.social's new novel THE TWO ROBERTS! Publishing Sept 4th and available to pre-order now: buythebook.online/the-two-robe... 'Crackles with creative rebellion' DOUGLAS STUART 'Epic and touching' DAVID NICHOLLS
- We’re delighted to reveal the cover for Little Ruins by bestselling author of brother. do. you. love. me. Manni Coe. A memoir about the healing power of nature and community set against the wonder of the Andalusian landscape, Little Ruins is out on 8 August buythebook.online/littleruins
- Reposted by CanongateThere's a new Ambrose Parry short story available from today as a free e-book and an audiobook, to whet your appetite for The Death of Shame next month. (NB. It's not a Raven & Fisher story, despite the Amazon blurb.) www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-Falls-...
- Delighted to announce that BETWEEN TWO WATERS by Pam Brunton has won the #FortnumandMason Food Book of the Year Award! An eye-opening insider critique of the food business which interrogates sustainability and documents the early days of Pam's restaurant Inver uk.bookshop.org/p/books/betw...
- Reposted by CanongateThe WINNER of the 2025 Pinsent Masons Sports Writing Award is... These Heavy Black Bones, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell (@canongate.co.uk) #CTSBA25 #ReadingForSport
- Huge congratulations to Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, her unforgettable memoir THESE HEAVY BLACK BONES has won the @sportsbookawards.bsky.social Pinsent Masons Sports Writing Award! A captivating read which lays bare the pressures of the swimming world, out now: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/thes...
- Happy publication day Alice Vincent! HARK is a sonic journey asking how women listen, which takes us into new corners of listening: from the phantom crying heard by mothers across the world to the nightingale's song and the crackle of the Aurora Borealis. Out now: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hark...
- Reposted by CanongateOne book announcement is exciting but TWO!😱 📚 A big congratulations to Alys Clare on: THE THEIF AND THE LABYRINTH, the latest in the World's End Bureau Victorian mystery series 🔍 THE PAPER HOUSE a contemporary mystery featuring an ancient ancestral home with plenty of skeletons in the closet 💀
- Reposted by CanongateJust look at this beautiful #SIGNED #IndieBookshop editions of #HARK by #AliceVincent @canongate.co.uk 🧡💚💛 ‘Stimulating and humane' - AMY LIPTROT 💛🧡💚 Discover the enchanting new book from the bestselling author of Why Women Grow www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page... #BookSky💙📚
- Publishing job! We're recruiting a Senior Rights Manager to join our rights team based in either Edinburgh or London! You'll be passionate, hard working, with 5 years+ experience in rights, ready to take your work to the next level. Salary & benefits in the ad. canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/
- Reposted by CanongateCome and work with us! We are looking for a new Chief Executive. Apply by Friday 9 May. See here for the full candidate info pack and to apply: www.publishingscotland.org/ps-job/ceo-p...
- We are beyond excited to announce that the incomparable Lily King is joining Canongate! Publishing in October, her new novel Heart the Lover is a magnificent and intimate story of desire, friendship, loss and the lasting impact of first love. Preorder here: buythebook.online/heart-the-lo...
- Reposted by CanongateHappy Monday! We're kicking off the week announcing THE KILGOUR RITUAL by Sarah Rayne 🎭 The FOURTH instalment in the Theatre of Thieves gothic historical mystery series, bursting with psychological suspense! Coming September 2026! #TheatreofThieves #sarahrayne #historicalmystery #crimefiction
- Spending (too much of) my morning thinking about this (absolutely phenomenal) Amazon review of Pride & Prejudice 'Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses' What's the best poorly articulated review you've seen (bonus points if they're bookish)? I crave some nonsense this bleak Monday
- Reposted by CanongateBats of Buckfastleigh: @danzep.bsky.social introduces a chiropteran extract from his latest book ‘Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark’ (@canongate.co.uk) — a celebration of all things nocturnal 🦇 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/bats... Photo courtesy Pam Barrett/Phil Wilson
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- 🔊EVENT KLAXON 🔊 Join Alice Vincent in conversation with @amykey.bsky.social at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday 29th for the first official event for Alice's new book HARK: How Women Listen www.foyles.co.uk/events/hark-...
- Reposted by CanongateWe're SUPER excited to announce THE WATCH by Emily Smith – a gripping speculative thriller about a woman living in a post-apocalyptic cult, who discovers nothing is what it seems. Coming May 2026! @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social #newbook #apocalypticcult #crimefiction #publishersmarketplace
- Wishing a happy publication day to Kevin Barry! THE HEART IN WINTER, a savagely funny, achingly beautiful outlaw story set in the badlands of Montana is out now in paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
- Wishing a huge congratulations to Alan Parks, TO DIE IN JUNE has been longlisted for the @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year! @alanparks.bsky.social
- Wishing everyone (especially Matt Trevelyan) a delightful Wednesday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Ok, so I missed the boat on the bank holiday weekend, but if you'd like to prepare the ultimate spring clean (FOR DEATH), you too could enjoy the delights of Döstädning (via #Stylist) www.stylist.co.uk/life/how-to-...
- “Shepherd’s world is explicitly corporeal, and her mountain more friend than god […] This is, I think, what I most love about this book. The knowing and not judging. The knowing and not knowing” Read the full piece on The Living Mountain, by the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
- Chuffed to announce that NAMESAKE, @nswriting.bsky.social's wonderful collection of essays exploring what it means to be a young secular Muslim woman, and reflecting on her ancestor Nusayba, the only woman warrior to have fought alongside the Prophet, has been shortlisted for the #JhalakPrize2025!
- Reposted by Canongate🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We're looking for an Administration Assistant to join our Production & Design team in Edinburgh! This job will work across both @severnhouse.bsky.social and our parent publisher @canongate.co.uk. Applications close 28 April. #jobsinpublishing #publishingjobs severnhouse.com/jobs/
- If you had any doubt about where transphobia leads, you only have to look to America, where it is already being used as a tool of fascism, as an early wedge in dehumanising larger and larger swathes of people. Trans rights are human rights. Attacks on trans rights are attacks on human rights. 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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- Delighted to be welcoming @somers.bsky.social to the Canongate fold with her novel THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR! Proofs available soon 👀📚
- @canongate.co.uk is set to publish a "hilariously acerbic novel" on family life and fidelity from @somers.bsky.social 👇 #BookSky
- 'When she campaigned for Leary’s release from prison, she wore a severe black mini dress, oversized sunglasses with pink lenses, and a bold amulet necklace emblazoned with three letters: LSD' The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan is out on 5 June! Pre-order here: buythebook.online/theacidqueen
- Reposted by CanongateOooohh! Well get Canongate with their fancy-dancy-schmancy levitating book pile. (Nicely done.)
- Reposted by CanongateIt’s UK pub day for Dear Writer! 🎉 @canongate.co.uk
- HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! FOOD FIGHT – Stuart Gillespie DEAR WRITER – Maggie Smith IS PEACE POSSIBLE? – Kathleen Lonsdale THE UNDERGROUND SEA – John Berger FEEDING THE MACHINE – James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant TO THE DOGS – Louise Welsh Available now: uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to...
