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    A Spell of Good Things : Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 by Ayobami Adebayo

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the ri...

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    The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

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    A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE AN...

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    Reasons to Stay Alive By Matt Haig - Non Fiction - Paperback

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    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he ca...

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    Notes on a Nervous Planet By Matt Haig - Non Fiction - Paperback

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    The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it?Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and pla...

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    Matt Haig Collection 4 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback

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    Title in This Set:1. The Humans2. Notes on a Nervous Planet3. The Comfort Book4. How to Stop TimeDescription:The HumansTHERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. ...

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    Margaret Atwood Collection 3 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback

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    Margaret Atwood is an icon in the realm of modern literature, a celebrated Canadian author whose works have transcended borders and genres. Over th...

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    Matt Haig 2 Books Collection Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

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    Titles in The Set:1. Reasons To Stay Alive2. Notes on a Nervous PlanetDescription:Reasons To Stay AliveWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 2...

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    How to Stop Time by Matt Haig - Fiction - Paperback

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    HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, b...

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    A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig 3 Book Collection Set - Ages 7-11 - Paperback

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    Now a Christmas movie available on Sky Movies and Now, get A Boy Called Christmas alongside its two sequels in a three-book collection! Titles In T...

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    Matt Haig Collection 3 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback

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    Title in This Set:1. The Humans2. Notes on a Nervous Planet3. How to Stop TimeDescription:The HumansTHERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE?After a...

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    A Raven and Fisher Mystery by Ambrose Parry 3 Books Collection Set - Fiction - Paperback

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    Title in This Set:1. The Way of All Flesh2. The Art of Dying3. A Corruption of BloodDescription:The Way of All FleshEdinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is ...

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    A History of Women in 101 Objects : A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch

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    A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more...

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    Listen : On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber

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    I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind....

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    The House of Doors : Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 by Tan Twan Eng

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORKER BOOK OF...

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    Our Strangers by Lydia Davis

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    A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: FICTION 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting ...

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    Your Brain on Art : How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023BARNES & NOBLE'S BEST SCIENCE & NATURE BOOKS OF 2023We're on the verge of a cul...

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    O Brother by John Niven

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    AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023AN iNEWS BEST B...

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    The House of Doors : Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 by Tan Twan Eng

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    It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society h...

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    Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

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    A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAREDINBURGH, 1853. In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . . In a time of unprecedented scientific discovery...

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    Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

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    A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the ninet...

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    To Die In June by Alan Parks

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    A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, seconded from...

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    Madly, Deeply : The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman

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    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: ENTERTAINMENTA MAIL ON SUNDAYS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2...

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    Let the Light Pour In : A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Lemn Sissay

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    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO GIFTFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed...

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    Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BEST BOO...

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Founded back in 1973 Canongate Books is an independent British publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Best known for nurturing and publishing new voices from across the globe, Canongate Books address several social issues and have a distinct outlook on the world. As part of their commitment to unearthing and promoting important voices and opinions; Canongate Books Edinburgh has published popular world leaders and novice writers with equal gusto. From publishing the works of an American president to new writers; the Canongate books catalogue is packed to the brim with the most coveted and unorthodox titles. 

Continuing their campaign for causes they believe in; Canongate has joined a global alliance of eleven other publishers and their international partners in their shared vision of editorial excellence, publishing original, diverse voices and their fight for causes and authors they believe in. Over the years, Canongate has given the world several bestselling, Award Winning books like Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Alasdair Gray’s masterpiece Lanark amongst several others. Canongate Books themselves won the British Book Awards Publisher of the year in 2003 and 2009.

Whilst there are several reasons for any book lover to subscribe to the annual Canongate Books catalogue; we at Books2Door love how progressive the Canongate Myth Series is. The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers and commissions to each of them an ancient myth, which they then spin around and retell in a contemporary and progressive fashion. Our favourite of the Myth series is The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. Atwood rewrites the legend and the myth of Penelope from the perspective of Penelope and the Twelve maids and turns this story of a devoted wife waiting for her glorious husband Odysseus into a tale of lust, greed, and murder.

An award-winning Canongate gem; Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy brings forth the voices of immigrants and delves into sensitive themes like anti-Semitism, racism, resilience, and more. A story about an unlikely friendship between an Indian Immigrant born in 1970s Britain and another from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution; the book is an intriguing read about common grounds, homelands, and more.

Yet another important voice that Canongate Books has given the world is My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay. The book follows a seventeen-year-old orphan through his childhood years with a foster family and in care homes. Until the day when Norman Greenwood is given his birth certificate and his real identity is revealed. Lemn Sissay, upon learning of his British heritage and his mother, sets out on a journey of self-discovery. Through Sissay’s journey, the book explores the institutional care system, race, and most importantly the meaning of home and family. A powerful memoir by a foster kid, the book is one of the many diverse voices brought forth by Canongate Books.

Whilst Canongate Books are all for encouraging new authors and voices; the Canongate Books submissions department does not accept unsolicited submissions and makes it a point to work with a lot of brilliant literary agents. They value the work of literary agents in the UK no less than the writers and are known to follow stringent and ethical editorial practices.