A hardback copy of The Midnight Train hardback by Matt Haig displaying colourful sprayed edges with a moon and stars motif

A hardback copy of The Midnight Train hardback by Matt Haig displaying colourful sprayed edges with a moon and stars motif

The stunning Independent Bookshop Signed Special Edition of The Midnight Train by @matthaig.bsky.social is available to pre-order now! Featuring rainbow edges with a beautiful moon and stars print design, you can order yours here whilst stocks last! buythebook.online/the-midnight...

There is no shame at all in being targeted for these kind of scams or in wanting to believe them. They are sophisticated and cruel. The only shame belongs to the scammers. Please be wary and look out for yourselves.

It goes without saying that it is incredibly scummy behaviour to exploit people like this.

There’s a lot of emotional intensity bound up in people’s desire to see their work published, which makes them vulnerable.

You can read one writer’s account of being targeted by one of these scams at stephaniewilliamswrites.substack.com/p/what-every...

The same is true for approaches from other publishers: verify the domain. Double check with a known email address if necessary.

Double check any email purporting to be from a Canongate editor comes from @canongate.co.uk. If you’re not 100% sure feel free to email info@canongate.co.uk and we can tell you if an editor has been in touch with you.

The scammers have expressed enthusiasm for the writer’s work and led them on with the ultimate goal of extracting money from them. This has even involved including other seemingly legitimate ‘people’ in email chains.

A public service announcement for writers: please be wary of scams. Canongate editors use @canongate.co.uk email addresses and will not email you from other accounts.

We’ve recently heard several accounts of people who have been contacted by malicious actors claiming to be real Canongate editors.

A paperback copy of Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh floating against a grey background, with a roundel reading 'Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prose Prize'

We're thrilled to share the news that Katie Goh's fascinating & distinctive personal history of the orange, Foreign Fruit, has been shortlisted for the #JhalakPrize!

'A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it' – KATHERINE MAY

Out now: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fore...

The UK/Europe edition of The Edge of Space-Time has landed in New Hampshire!! It's very pretty!!

Out May 7 from @canongate.co.uk -- preorder now! And yes, North Americans, you can collect them all :-D

💙📚
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THE REALMS OF GOLD by Margaret Drabble against a grey background. The cover is a sift orange with bright orange text and spine. The cover shows an illustration of the back of a woman's head.

THE REALMS OF GOLD is a luminous story of love, purpose and regret, and captures the essence of what it means to be a woman at a crossroads

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Two books stacked against a grey background. The top book is THE WITCH OF EXMOOR by Margaret Drabble. The cover is bright pink with purple text and spine. The cover image is an illustration of a dark haired women with hoop earrings side profile.

THE WITCH OF EXMOOR is a spellbinding portrait of a troubled family and wry dissection of middle-class sentiment around legacy and social ambition

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Three Margaret Drabble books against a grey background. The top book is THE GARRICK YEAR, which shows a baby blue over with red text and spine. The cover image shows an illustration of the reflection of a woman in a hand-held mirror.

We’ve got so many books to share today!

Three Margaret Drabble classics THE WITCH OF EXMOOR, THE REALMS OF GOLD and THE GARRICK YEAR, join our Canon collection.

THE GARRICK YEAR is a sharp and merciless dark comedy about marriage, motherhood and the pull of ambition
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If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn, laying against a grey background. The cover is beige with black text and a illustrative pen sketch of Shakespeare on the front cover, with speech bubbles showing different languages.

IF THIS BE MAGIC is a fascinating exploration of translation and Shakespeare from award-winning translator Daniel Hahn 🪶

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Two books stacked against a grey background. The top book is The Great Good Places by Margaret Drabble. The cover is purple with a green spine and the image of a flowering branch on the cover.

In THE GREAT GOOD PLACES, literary giant Margaret Drabble delivers a luminous hybrid of short fiction, essays and memoir 📖

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A stack of colourful books against a grey background. Top book is Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu. The top of the cover is bright yellow with orange text and the bottom half shows a black and white image of a woman's side profile.

LONELY CROWDS by Stephanie Wambugu is a piercing debut set in the glamorous 90s NYC art scene, centring on a friendship teetering on the obsessive 🎨

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A stack of colourful books against a grey background. The top book is Food Fight by Stuart Gillespie. The cover is green and show the image of the earth with a fork stuck into it.

FOOD FIGHT by Stuart Gillespie follows a veteran of four decades at the frontline of global food policy, exposing how malnutrition is enmeshed with other crises and what we can all do to change it 🍔

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A stack of colourful books against a grey background. The top book is Nature's Genius by David Farrier. The cover is light blue and depicts the image of a sparse little tree growing against a cliff's edge.

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing, NATURE’S GENIUS by David Farrier is a mind-expanding account of how we shape the lives of animals and plants – and how they shape us 🌲

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A stack of colourful books against a grey background. To book on top is Forgeign Fruit by Katie Goh in paperback. A navy cover with the image of an orange being peeled on the front.

FOREIGN FRUIT by Katie Gogh is a hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the cultivation of the orange to explore identity 🍊

Available now!
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Happy publication day to all!

Robert Seethaler stuns with THE CAFÉ WITH NO NAME a historical tale set in 1960s Vienna, THE LAST MOVEMENT, a portrait of an artist at the end of his life. Plus, his Man Booker International shortlisted A WHOLE LIFE!

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

Son of Nobody is available now, in all good bookshops and online.

Despite the three-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition and grief.

As sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its modern footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears...

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. 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’...

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

'A meditation on mythmaking, homemaking and storytelling'
Guardian

'A beautiful story about what we can learn from the past when it comes to homesickness, grief, love and ambition'
Elle Magazine

'Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker'
URSULA K. LE GUIN

A hardback copy of Son of Nobody by Yann Martel, sitting against a grey background

The past is never done with: always the song continues

Happy Publication Day to Yann Martel with SON OF NOBODY, a gripping new novel that connects the lives of a foot soldier in the Trojan War with a scholar struggling to make sense of life in modern-day Oxford.

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– one that will upend his whole world.

Now, he faces a bewildering stream of concerned adults clutching files, unfamiliar streets to navigate, a strange bed to sleep in, and the very real chance he won’t see his wee brother and sister again.

He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it’s like at home for Gerard; he’s used to carrying a lot on his small shoulders.

Gerard doesn’t always make good decisions. And on one April morning, in the blink of an eye, he makes a very bad one...

'Life-affirming' JANICE HALLETT
'Full of compassion and hope' ELISSA SOAVE
‘A masterpiece’ CAROLE HAILEY

Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos...