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Welcome to Just a Minute extract

Welcome to Just a Minute!

In this first ever official companion, chairman Nicholas Parsons tells the fascinating story of the much-loved panel game and Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair and Gyles Brandreth share their memories of the show.

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Bluffers Guide to Bukowski

THE BLUFFER’S BUKOWSKI

Or seven things you mightn't know about America's beat generation hero. Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. 
 

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Summer Reading 3 for 2 July 2015

3 for 2 on more than 40 summer favourites 


Still haven't chosen your must-read books for the summer? We've made things just a little bit easier with three for two on some great Canongate reads until 14 August. 


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Festival Favourites

Festival favourites

Glastonbury may be a fuzzy memory this week, but the festival season’s just getting started. Here’s our guide to a few of the highlights we’re looking forward to over the next month...


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The Book of Strange New Things PBK – cover reveal

The Book of Strange New Things

View the new jackets for Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things, ahead of publication in August.
The stunning new edition will come in two complementary cover designs, the result of another collaboration between illustrator Yehrin Tong and Canongate Art Director Rafi Romaya.


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Summer reading

Summer reading

The arrival of some slightly warmer weather has us thinking back fondly to long, hazy days spent in beer gardens and on the beach, a staple diet of ice lollies, barbecued food and Pimms and, of course, lounging around with a good book.

We asked some Canongaters to give us their tips on books that take them back to days gone by....

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The Scottish Islands by Hamish Haswell-Smith

The Scottish Islands

HAMISH HASWELL-SMITH

To celebrate the publication of the new edition of The Scottish Islands, we asked our newsletter subscribers to send us photographs from their favourite islands – take a peek here.

Our Tragic Universe (trailer) by Scarlett Thomas

Our Tragic Universe

SCARLETT THOMAS

Read The Seed Collectors and can't get enough from Scarlett? Watch the short animation that Oscar™-winners Tandem Films made for Our Tragic Universe.

Canongate authors at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015

Edinburgh Book Festival

CANONGATE

It's almost that time of year again, when Charlotte Square in Edinburgh starts to feel like the centre of the universe. Check out which of your favourite Canongate writers are coming to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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The Seed Collectors cover

'The Seed Collectors is entrancing: it's a sharply observed contemporary novel of real people and real plants and real desire and real hurt, and it's somehow also one of the sharpest fantasies I've encountered.' Neil Gaiman

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The Radleys

'A witty introduction to present-day vampire lore... Highly recommended.' Observer 

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The First Bad Man paperback

'The novel exploded my expectations and became unlike anything I've ever read . . . hilarious . . . A wry, smart companion on any day. It's warm, it has a heartbeat and a pulse. This is a book that is painfully alive.' The New York Times Book Review

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