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

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

Double check any email purporting to be from a Canongate editor comes from @canongate.co.uk. If you are 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 same is true for approaches from other publishers: verify the domain. Double check with a known email address if necessary.

Congratulations to Charlotte McConaghy on WILD DARK SHORE which is longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction!

A spectacularly choreographed eco-thriller traversing nature and human frailty – full of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty and ferocious love, WILD DARK SHORE is a novel not to be missed

‘I am in awe. I am in love. I am heartbroken. All of it possible, all at once, after a book as extraordinary as this one’ CLARE DAVERLEY
‘Breathtaking’ HANNAH KENT
‘Spellbinding’ Washington Post
‘Had me gripped from the very first page’ RACHEL JOYCE

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

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world’s largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost to rising sea levels, the island’s researchers have fled, and only the Salts remain.

Until, during the worst storm in living memory, a stranger washes ashore. The family nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, but it seems she isn’t telling the whole truth about why she’s there. And when Rowan stumbles upon sabotaged radios and a recently dug grave, she realises that she’s not the only one on the island with a secret.

Thanks to the Women's Prize team, and sponsors Baileys and Audible!

You can read Wild Dark Shore now, available at your favourite local bookshop and online: https://buythebook.online/wild-dark-shore

Congratulations to the wonderful Katie Goh, whose fascinating and idiosyncratic (in the best possible way) Foreign Fruit – a personal history of the orange – has been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize.

'A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it' Katherine May

Available now in bookshops and online: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/415/9781837261178

Our #introduction to #bookstodon!

Hello, we are Canongate Books, an independent #publisher of an eclectic mix of #authors for an eclectic and discerning audience of readers. You might know us from the spines of:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
& many, many more.

We're based in Edinburgh and London, and next year we'll be 50. Hello!

We're thrilled to announce Lily King‘ HEART THE LOVER has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction!

Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King’s writing still pierces you’ The Times
'Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity' Independent
'Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page' Daily Mail

'You knew I’d write a book about you someday'

Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.

She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined – with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.

Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.

Thanks to the Women's Prize team, and sponsors Baileys and Audible!

You can read Heart the Lover now, available in your favourite local bookshop & online: https://buythebook.online/heart-the-lover-by-lily-king

@ultrazool@mastodon.scot there's always next year! (And plenty of time to get the tattoo in the meantime...)