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Happy publication day to this gorgeous stack!
THIS IS HOW YOU REMEMBER IT –
@prasifcat
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY & SPRINGFIELD ROAD –
@salenagodden
BEASTLY –
@KeggieC
THE BORGIA PORTRAIT –
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Get your copies:
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It’s so nice that Waterstones staff finally have something good to look forward to, after such a tough year.
I make a point of buying books at my local
@Waterstones
rather than ordering on Amazon because I want bookstores to thrive, but if I go into your store and a member of staff asks me to wear a mask, you will lose my business forever.
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Delighted to share the news that we'll be publishing Theresa May's memoir in autumn 2020! A moving and engaging behind-the-scenes account of her time in power and sorry I can't keep a straight face obviously we're not publishing her and very much hope no one ever will.
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*breathes deeply* Namjoon recommended
@matthaig1
's
#TheMidnightLibrary
on the latest episode BTS' reality tv show, In The Soop.
Coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool...
This means we're best friends now, right?
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I often think about this idea to implant the codes for a nuclear attack in someone’s chest.
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MAYBE YOU ALL LOVE FOOTBALL NOW BUT YOU’LL COME CRAWLING BACK TO BOOKS. YOU’LL BE BACK.
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Evidently there is an Icelandic tradition called 'Jolabokaflod' (Yule book flood):
on Christmas Eve everyone gives each other lots of books (YES) and then spends the evening reading (ABSOLUTELY YES).
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We’re deeply saddened to announce that the beloved writer and artist Alasdair Gray has died, aged 85.
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THIS IS NOT HOW WORDS WORK.
2/8 Stay alert by staying at home as much as possible.
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Very happy (delighted really) to announce that we’re also not publishing Milo.
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I’m going to tell you a story. And hold tight, because this is an emotional one.
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There are writers who spend their entire careers supporting and boosting others. They don’t do it for a quid pro quo, but my god are people excited to support them when the time comes.
Other writers are not your competition; they’re your community.
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So today, we are delighted, excited and not a little emotional to announce the upcoming 2021 publication of The Dark Remains, co-authored by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin.
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KID A MNESIA and FEAR STALKS THE LAND! by
@thomyorke
and
@StanleyDonwood
are out today.
Two books of the process, artwork and lyrics of the
@radiohead
albums Kid A and Amnesiac.
Get them now:
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Well, well, well.
MAYBE YOU ALL LOVE FOOTBALL NOW BUT YOU’LL COME CRAWLING BACK TO BOOKS. YOU’LL BE BACK.
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I did it everyone! I got through the election campaign without once using the word 'cunts' on this corporate twitter feed! 🙌🎉🍾 It was close!
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On this note: it may be controversial, but Canongate is VERY excited and not a little nervous to announce that...we’d rather go bankrupt than give one penny to this fascist. Plus, Obama won a Grammy for his memoir, so we’ll stick to publishing that.
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Milo joins such luminaries as two clowns in a bar fight, a piss-covered wolf gnawing its own leg & Piers Morgan on our exciting non-list.
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In
@richardreedinno
's new book If I Could Tell You Just One Thing,
@JKCorden
's revealed his one key piece of advice.
#remarkableadvice
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The year is 2050AD. Publishing is entirely taken over by Penguin Random House. Well, not entirely...
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Today, it is our pleasure and humble privilege to publish a new hardback edition of a book intrinsic to our values as a publisher of unorthodox and innovative work; one of the first to inspire generations of nature-writers. [a thread]
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FILM NEWS, BABY! Benedict Cumberbatch has acquired the rights to
@matthaig1
's upcoming novel How To Stop Time!
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As a consistently generous bunch of people, could we ask for your help spreading the word about the new Nan Shepherd Prize?
We’re seeking writers underrepresented in nature writing and offering a £10k book deal, mentoring and literary representation. Follow
@nanprize
for more.
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Can we all agree to take a moment's silence for the poor fact-checker who gets assigned this
We are pleased to share the news that HarperCollins Publishers has acquired former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s memoir.
@WmCollinsBooks
– an imprint of HarperCollins UK – will publish the book. No publication date has been set.
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IT'S HAPPENING! We're going to publish an edition of
@matthaig1
's bestselling
#HowToStopTime
with illustrations by
@chrisriddell50
! Aaaaah!
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
starts on 13th May and we believe that sharing stories is an essential way to start conversations about mental health. We're therefore incredibly proud to publish
@matthaig1
's books, which offer advice and solidarity to those who are struggling
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I've asked our sales team to double the cost of all of our books for Black Friday, so you'd better get in there now while they are merely full price.
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David Cameron’s book is apparently 750 pages long. Imagine all the lack of insight he’ll be able to fit in.
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This is a dream pairing and, as Willie’s partner Siobhan comments in the Guardian piece, it’s what Willie would have wanted. We think Ian has done him proud.
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We are raising a glass to
@matthaig1
, straight in at number one with
#NotesOnANervousPlanet
😃 💃 🍾 🥂 CONGRATS, MATT!
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In recent months I've seen various people complain about the apparently degrading quality of Google search results, so here's how we have gone from being a renowned independent publisher to one of the internet's least satisfying fetish sites (a quick/not entirely-sfw 🧵):
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The sad reality is that very few of us wil ever experience true love.
Ha, APRIL FOOLS! You are all loved more than you know, and that love is not contingent but will surround and lift you for the remainder of your days, you dummies! ❤️
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🎵 BOOKS ARE COMING HOME, THEY’RE COMING HOME, THEY’RE COMING, BOOKS ARE COMING HOME 🎵
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Socialist bookshop
@Bookmarks_Books
were harassed and abused at the weekend – show them some support if you can. We'll send a free book to anyone between now and Sunday who buys a book from them. Just tweet us a pic of the receipt
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It's not often we buy a book to publish in under three weeks, but this isn't just any book. In IMPEACH,
@Neal_Katyal
- former Acting Solicitor General of the United States - offers a perfect primer for anyone trying to get to grips with the legal debate around Trump's removal.
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Yes, we now have a blue tick, but we promise to stay humble and try to hide the contempt in which we now hold you all (as far as possible).
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
We miss all our bookshops
And booksellers too
The vaccine is coming
But shops are still quiet.
So find a book that you love,
phone a bookshop, and buy it!
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Today marks the last day you'll know us as Canongate...
From tomorrow, we are 'FETA' - suppliers of wine, cheese and books, a whole Fetaverse connecting readers and catering to their reading delights.
think of it like Facebook's metaverse, but less sinister.
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We're very excited to announce that
@matthaig1
’s The Midnight Library is THE bestselling book in the country!
Huge congratulations to Matt! So well deserved!
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We passed 45k followers! Just called my mum to tell her. She said, 'This desperate yearning for attention is the opposite of an achievement’
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Well, we've had some good news...
Congratulations
@matthaig1
! Author of the newly crowned NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER The Midnight Library!
This wise, heartwarming, beautiful book deserves all the best things, and it's great to see it doing so incredibly well.
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This has all raised one serious issue. In the future, we're no longer going to include this clause in all our contracts.
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Hey, um, I don't want to make a big deal about this - I don't really like being the centre of attention, y'know - but you might want to keep an out for some PRETTY BIG CANONGATE NEWS hitting The Guardian tomorrow.
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He was also a humane and decent man – outspoken and principled in his political beliefs – and wondrously idiosyncratic – almost everyone at Canongate had a great story about meeting him. I'm sure lots of people will be sharing theirs now.
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Of course, How To Stop Time isn't out until July, so at the moment only important people like Benedict Cumberbatch and me have proof copies
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Apparently it’s Blue Monday. So if you’re feeling a bit down today, don’t worry - it’s just because of that!
(Every other day you feel exhausted, it’s probably because of the global pandemic, the rise of fascism, Brexit, the lack of daylight and everything else going on. Sorry.)
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In incredibly exciting news, we're delighted to announce we've acquired the debut poetry collection from Scots Word of the Day champion
@Lenniesaurus
!
POYUMS will be landing next February
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We get to announce lots of big news on this account. New books we've acquired and are excited about, prizes our authors have won, tv and film adaptations, incredible reviews and blurbs. Yet today might be one of the biggest pieces of industry news we'll ever talk about.
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Twitter, hypothetically if I were to offer you an online scavenger/treasure hunt where you could solve a series of clues to win EVERY HARDBOOK WE PUBLISHED THIS YEAR would you be interested/elated/overjoyed?
#canongateclues
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We're amazed at the phenomenal response from readers to the
#TheMidnightLibrary
by
@matthaig1
. We've heard from many how it has resonated with them, including this page which has been helpful – on choices & regret
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Boycott, day 3. We subsist on gruel. Our office got a scathing 1★ review on Google. Don’t know if we can hang on.
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Send us some
#SunLitCrit
: our favourite gets a prize, tbd.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL – ‘Triggered’ millennials HAPPY when successful businessman is beset by ghosts!
OF MICE AND MEN -
Generation Snowflake feel SYMPATHY for hulking KILLER
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Huge congratulations to
@matthaig1
- the masterful How To Stop Time has won the
#BamB
popular fiction award!
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Alasdair is of course the author of Lanark, as well as many other unforgettable novels, including 1982, Janine and Poor Things. He was an exceptional short story writer, an artist – a designer of his own work, a painter of murals… – and has been Englishing Dante's Divine Comedy.
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To celebrate, we're offering you - yes, you - the chance to win a limited edition, signed, gold-edged hardback. Which looks like this:
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Over the moon to announce we've not one but TWO new books publishing soon from bookish wonder
@Damian_Barr
! A soon-to-be-revealed novel coming soon in 2025, and a memoir following in 2027!
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🌟GIVEAWAY🌟This week - what with dreaded exam results and the ever-rolling newsfeed of doom - we'd like to offer a glimmer of optimism to one lucky person. Simply RT to be in with a chance of winning a set of
@matthaig1
's bestselling books about mental health.
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One small upside of these strange, sad times is that we might revive that most delicate, beautiful art… of writing to one another.
Here's Erik Satie writing to a critic. (From Letters of Note: Music)
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Matt Haig's Notes on a Nervous Planet continues its beautifully well-deserved run at number 1.
A lot of people want a calming, wise book about dealing with our distinctly un-calm, un-wise, very nervous world right now. I'm delighted it exists and we get to publish it.
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There's a misconception that when the
#LondonBookFair
is on not much happens in the office but, actually, Sylvie the office dog takes full advantage of the quiet: there's high level strategy meetings…
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I just love living in a meritocracy in which talent and a lifelong, selfless commitment to the good of others are recognised and rewarded
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Anyone have a recommendation for a really long book?
Not that I can focus to read; I'm hoping to beat myself unconscious with it.
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*Hugs all the Faber books*
Know a fellow-author whose work is annoyingly popular; who has numerous copies of their books on the shelves when you have but a few? From Monday, you can go into any English branch of
@Waterstones
, touch their books and the books will be QUARANTINED FOR 72 HOURS. Result!
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@canongatebooks
My colleague tells me we're currently in discussions with piss-covered wolf, 1 of the most exciting new voices in literature
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Today's logo change is a very special one, as we celebrate 50 years of fiercely independent publishing this year!
Half a century of unearthing and publishing bold, vital, exciting writers across the world. From Lanark to Life of Pi, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to The Midnight Library
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I REMAIN convINced busINesses shouldn't try to INfluence political decis-INs. Which is why we're neutral IN this matter and will REMAIN so.
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We animated a few strips from the excellent
@tomgauld
collection Baking With Kafka! Here, everyone’s favourite 20th century writer of existentially debilitating absurdity shares a lovely cake recipe.
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We have revised our hiring policy. No fuck-around timewasters like you and the rest of your generation.
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Here is the very start of the very special, brand new and OUT TODAY audio edition of
#TheTruthPixie
read by Olivia Colman and written by
@matthaig1
!
And for every copy sold of this exclusive edition, we're donating 50p to
@UNICEF_uk
💃🏻
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‘Dear millennials, you despicable, work-shy arseholes, please come and work for me’
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A happy Valentine's Day, and a repentant and sombre Ash Wednesday to you all! May you gaze adoringly into the eyes of the one you love, while reflecting on what a terrible person you are.
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We're thrilled to be publishing
@louisewelsh00
's new novel! Set 20 years after The Cutting Room, The Second Cut is a stylish story of post-pandemic Glasgow, featuring macabre gay auctioneer Rilke carefully walking the tightrope between saint and sinner.
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I have two exciting bits of
#NanShepherd
news!
1. We're launching a new prize for under-represented nature writers in her honour (follow along at
@NanPrize
)
2. We're releasing an audiobook of The Living Mountain read by the one and only Tilda Swinton
Nan Shepherd writing prize launched as Tilda Swinton records audiobook:
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Oh hey, check out my soundcloud, which can only be accessed by going into a local bookshop, being polite to the people who work there and buying a couple of books
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We've had a program installed on our office printer that will translate a document for you WHILE IT SCANS IT. This thing is incredible, I've just been testing it
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Canongate employees, please stay calm. Yes, there is a shark in the office, but flailing and panic will only enrage the shark.
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We’re looking for a Production Assistant to work with us in Edinburgh! It’s a great opportunity, in the best city in the world, working with some incredible books. RT widely and well! Apply early and often!
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We're looking for an Editorial Assistant in Edinburgh!
Come and join one of the best independent publishers in the country!
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Our office manager has done an incredible job of making sure all the cogs of our business still run while we're all working from home. But I'm worried that I've not yet seen a rota for office dog Sylvie's time at each of our houses...
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Publishing film idea: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, except it's a tour through our printers. Along the way, all the mean kids are lost in unfortunate copy-editing accidents or buried under the leaning tower of marketing materials.
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For
#StarWarsDay
here's
@arobertwebb
's tale of the time he met the irreplaceable Carrie Fisher and got a little lost and very smitten as he walked her to a restaurant.
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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I'm a little bit COMPLETELY IN LOVE with I Go Quiet (out 5 Sept 19).
'Astonishingly beautiful . . . I wish this book had been around when I was a child' -
@neilhimself
'Brought tears of joy to my eyes' -
@CBickfordSmith
'Completely original' -
@PhilipPullman
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. ... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment is what makes the present inhabitable.” - Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
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Congratulations to Matt Haig! Shortlisted for UK Author of the Year by the National Book Awards and in our hearts!
Finally the
@Specsavers
UK Author of the Year includes
@SebastianFaulks
,
@jk_rowling
@RGalbraith
,
@matthaig1
,
@SarahGPerry
,
@PhilipPullman
&
@FansofJWilson
#NationalBookAwards
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I'd like to make clear that this account has never bought followers. I have earned every one of you the hard way: with humour, charm and extended bouts of intense, unyielding neediness.
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Thisisgreatnewsisn'titfantasticnotthatIdrinkalotofcoffeeImeanIreallydon'tallthatmuchbutstillthisfeelslikegoodnewsdoesn'tit?ImightgoandmakesomemorecoffeenowanyonewantsomecoffeeI'mmakingareallygiantcafetieresotherewillbelotsforeveryoneoratleastacuportwoonceI'vehadminehahahahahahaha
Up to 25 cups of coffee a day safe for heart health, study finds
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