Delighted to see Lily King's HEART THE LOVER on the Fiction Book of the Year shortlists @thebookseller.com, fingers crossed!
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Delighted to see Lily King's HEART THE LOVER on the Fiction Book of the Year shortlists @thebookseller.com, fingers crossed!
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We're delighted to announce an electric new novel from the bold, brilliant Annie Macmanus, THE FOX – coming April 2027!
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A yawn from a tiny pink mouth, a kind word from a stranger on a difficult day, the weight of a body sleeping against your chest – parents will recognise both themselves and their children in Tender and find consolation in this collection.
It captures all the tiny, fragile, perfect moments of new life and, with it, new parenthood. Full of sleepless wonder and with his characteristic wit and warmth, Harry Baker offers snapshots into the intense first 100 days with his son as they get to know each other.
‘A gorgeous new book from the wordsmith of warmth’ MICHAEL MULLEN
‘Capture[s] the wonder, joy and trepidation of being a new parent wonderfully’ JOHN BISHOP
Tender is the new collection from World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker, which sees him turn his attention to the topic of fatherhood.
A hardback copy of Tender by Harry Baker floating against a grey background
Happy Publication Day to Harry Baker and his hilarious & heart-warming new collection on fatherhood TENDER
'I was moved to tears and then laughing in seconds' DAVINA McCALL
'An exquisite, funny look into the life and love of a new dad' HOLLIE McNISH
Available now: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tend...
Thanks to the Women's Prize team, and sponsors Baileys and Audible!
You can order Heart the Lover now, in-store and online: buythebook.online/heart-the-lo...
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.
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...
'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...
'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' Daily Mail
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
A hardback copy of Heart the Lover by Lily King, floating against a grey background. The Image bears a roundel which reads 'Women's Prize longlisted - Fiction 2026'
We're thrilled to announce Lily King's HEART THE LOVER has been longlisted for the @womensprize 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...
Thanks to the Women's Prize team, and sponsors Baileys and Audible!
You can order Wild Dark Shore now: buythebook.online/wild-dark-sh...
itt 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.
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....
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....
‘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 floating paperback copy of Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, the image has a roundel attached which states 'Women's Prize longlisted - Fiction 2026'
Congratulations to Charlotte McConaghy whose WILD DARK SHORE is longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social Women’s Prize for Fiction!
A spectacular eco-thriller traversing nature and human frailty – full of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty and ferocious love, it's a novel not to be missed
Sharing the second of our Gray Day animation commissions ✨
Oliver Pearse, one of five artists selected by The Alasdair Gray Archive and @canongate.co.uk, reimagines Chapter Six of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) for the Alan Cumming audiobook—first screened at Gray Day 2026 at Òran Mór.
Congratulations to our publicity team! Publicity Executive Amaani won the Publisher's Publicity Circle award for best newcomer for The Secret Painter last night, and Communications Director Anna was highly commended (Alongside freelance PR Christian Lewis) for Heart the Lover!
A FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2025
‘Each story is fascinating in its own right; together, they form a thought-provoking book that exposes the precariousness of our sense of self’ New Scientist
A hardback copy of The is the Door by Darcey Steinke and a paperback copy of Our Brains Ourselves by Masud Husain, floating against a grey background
In the @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize-winning Our Brains, Our Selves, award-winning author and leading neurologist Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social shares seven fascinating cases of brain disorders from across his career – and shows what they can teach us about our own brains
A hardback copy of This is the Door by Darcey Steinke floating against a grey background
Darcey Steinke - the author beloved by Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson - examines the experience of pain, organ by organ, both in her own body and in literature, for those in pain and those who love them
‘A work of piercing grace, philosophical wisdom and rare emotional power’ ELIZABETH GILBERT
A hardback copy of The is the Door by Darcey Steinke and a paperback copy of Our Brains Ourselves by Masud Husain, floating against a grey background
Happy publication day to these two brilliant books!
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain – Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain – Darcey Steinke
Available in-store and online:
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A coloured screenprint of a title page for LANARK: A Life in Four Books. The illustration contains dreamlike imagery against a background of stars and rushing clouds: at the very top, a black-and-white sketch of Glasgow tenements and streets; next to it, a strange figure, part woman, part tree, who is eating the apples that grow from her body; next to that, a hand reaches out of a stormy sea towards a golden sun. A monstrous, distorted mixture of a whale and an elephant, with human hands and breasts, is suckling two embracing figures: a blue man and a pink woman. Dominating the image is a blonde, blue-eyed woman, looking outwards. A thin, almost emaciated, monochrome male figure rises from the page of an open sketchbook. He holds a pencil and a set of dividers and is drawing a replica of his own face. On the sketchbook is written "For Andrew Gray and Morag McAlpine | Glasgow Print Studio | 2014"
INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?
ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.
I: Just like that?
AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it and honed it down to as few words as possible.
A #GrayDay 🧵
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Congratulations to Rowe Irvin! Delighted to see Life Cycle of a Moth, their visceral, bold and devastating debut novel exploring male violence and maternal love longlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award!
'Astonishing' LUCY ROSE
'Unforgettable' OBSERVER
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Next Wednesday at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk - tickets going fast!
Tilda Swinton reading The Lonely City audiobook in a recording studio
And we're thrilled to share the news that a new audiobook edition will be publishing alongside the hardback on June 4th, read by Tilda Swinton!