Canongate Books (trading asCanongate) is anindependent publishing firm based inEdinburgh, Scotland.^[1]

Canongate Books Ltd.

Founded	1973; 52 years ago (1973)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Edinburgh, Scotland
Distribution	The Book Service (UK) Grove Atlantic (US)
Key people	Jamie Byng, Publisher and Managing Director
Publication types	Books
Imprints	Severn House Publishers
Official website	canongate.co.uk

It is named afterthe Canongate area of the city. It is most recognised for publishing theBooker Prize winning novelLife of Pi (2001). Canongate was named theBritish Book Awards Publisher of the Year in 2003 and 2009.^[2][3]

Canongate was founded in 1973 byStephanie Wolfe Murray and her husband Angus Wolfe Murray.^[4] Originally a speciality press focusing on Scottish-interest books, generally with small print runs, its most major author wasAlasdair Gray. In 1994 it was purchased from the receiver in a management buyout led byJamie Byng, using funds provided by his stepfatherChristopher Bland and his father-in-law Charlie McVeigh, and began to publish more general works, including thePocket Canons editions of books of theBible, as well as thePayback Press andRebel Inc. imprints.^[5][6] Byng is CEO of the company.

In June 2010 it was announced that a "living archive" of Canongate Books was to be established at theUniversity of Dundee in collaboration with the University's Archive Services, which will be used for teaching and research.^[7][8]

Canongate once had a sister company in Australia, Text Publishing; Canongate's majority interest was sold in 2011.^[9] It also has joint venture operations with the children's publisherWalker who will publish selected titles for theiryoung adult fiction list.^[10]Grove/Atlantic, Inc. publishes under the Canongate U.S. imprint, also under a joint venture arrangement.^[11] In March 2010, Canongate and Dirtee Stank announced a joint venture agreement to publishDizzee Rascal's memoir, although this agreement later fell through.^[12]

Canongate is part of the Independent Alliance, a global alliance of 10 UK publishers and their international publishing partners.^[13] In 2009, the Alliance was the UK's fifth largest publisher.^[14]

Enhanced Editions and Canongate also work in partnership in the production of selected books enhanced for the iPhone and iPod Touch.^[15] The titles that have been released are:Dreams From My Father,The Audacity of Hope,The Death of Bunny Munro andThe Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

Alasdair Gray

• Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)
• A Life in Pictures (2010)

Charles Palliser

• The Quincunx (1989)

Julian Assange

• Julian Assange – the Unauthorised Autobiography (2011). Assange's autobiography was published without his consent, and Canongate and Assange gave differing accounts of the events surrounding publication.^[16][17]

The Mighty Boosh

• The Mighty Book of Boosh (2008) andThe Pocket Book of Boosh (2009), a coffee-table style hardback and "pocket" edition of a tie-in to theTV series.

Noel Fielding (withMighty Boosh memberDave Brown)

• The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton (2011).

Nick Cave

• The Death of Bunny Munro (2009), the second novel by musicianNick Cave,^[18] was announced in 2008. It was published in hardback, audiobook, ebook and iPhone application formats in September 2009.

David Eagleman

• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (2009), made famous by a Tweet fromStephen Fry^[19] and the subject of a live show byBrian Eno.

Michel Faber

• The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), a historical novel set in Victorian England. Faber followed this with a collection of stories,The Apple (2006).

Matt Haig

• The Radleys (2010)

Steven Hall

• The Raw Shark Texts (2007)

Miranda July

• No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007)

Ismail Kadare

• The Ghost Rider
• The Siege (2008)

Yann Martel

• Life of Pi (2001, Canongate edition 2002), the first Scottish-published book to win theBooker Prize or to sell a million copies in its first year.^[20] An illustrated hardback edition was published in 2007.
• Beatrice and Virgil (2010), an allegory ofthe Holocaust using a donkey named Beatrice and a howler monkey named Virgil.^[21]

James Meek

• The People's Act of Love (2005), winner of theScottish Arts Council Book of the Year and theOndaatje Prize.

Barack Obama

• Dreams from My Father (1995, Canongate edition 2007)
• The Audacity of Hope (2006, Canongate edition 2007) was acquired after a series of emails between Byng and then-Senator Obama and his team.^[22]
• Change We Can Believe In (2008, Canongate edition 2009)

Dizzee Rascal

• The Dizzee Rascal Story (2010)^[23]

David Shrigley

• What The Hell Are You Doing? (2010)^[24]

David Simon

• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991, Canongate edition 2008)
• The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997, Canongate edition 2009)

Martin C. Strong^[25]

• The Great Rock Discography, 1st ed. (1994)
• The Great Rock Discography, 2nd ed. (1995)
• The Great Rock Discography, 3rd ed. (1996)
• The Great Rock Discography, 4th ed. (1998)
• The Great Rock Discography, 5th ed. (2000)
• The Great Rock Discography, 6th ed. (2002)
• The Great Rock Discography, 7th ed. (2004)
• The Great Metal Discography, 1st ed. (1998)
• The Great Metal Discography, 2nd ed. (2002)
• The Wee Rock Discography (1996)
• The Great Alternative & Indie Discography (1999)
• The Great Indie Discography, 2nd ed. (2003)
• The Essential Rock Discography (2006)
• Lights, Camera, Soundtracks (2008)

Scarlett Thomas

• The End of Mr. Y (2007)
• PopCo (2004, Canongate edition 2009)
• Our Tragic Universe (2010)

Simon Tofield

• Simon's Cat (2009), the award-winning^[26] animation was published in book format in October 2009.^[27]

In which contemporary authors re-imagine ancientmyths from a variety of cultures

• Karen Armstrong,A Short History of Myth (2005)
• Margaret Atwood,The Penelopiad (2005)
• Jeanette Winterson,Weight (2005)
• Michel Faber,The Fire Gospel (2008)
• David Grossman,Lion's Honey (2006)
• Alexander McCall Smith,Dream Angus (2006)
• Victor Pelevin,The Helmet of Horror (2006)
• Ali Smith,Girl Meets Boy (2007)
• Su Tong,Binu and the Great Wall (2007)
• Salley Vickers,Where Three Roads Meet (2007)
• Dubravka Ugrešić,Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2009)
• Klas Östergren,The Hurricane Party (2009)
• Milton Hatoum,The Orphans of Eldorado (2010)
• Philip Pullman,The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010)

• 2007:No One Belongs Here More Than You byMiranda July won theFrank O'Connor International Short Story Award.^[28]
• 2008:The Boat byNam Le won theDylan Thomas Prize.^[29]
• 2009:Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi byGeoff Dyer won theBollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.^[30]
• 2009:The Boat byNam Le won the AustralianPrime Minister's Literary Awards.^[31]
• 2015:Beatlebone byKevin Barry won theGoldsmiths Prize.^[32]
• 2016:Solar Bones byMike McCormack won theGoldsmiths Prize.^[33]
• 2016:The Outrun byAmy Liptrot won theWainwright Prize.^[34]

• Canongate Myth Series
• List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom
• Publishing Scotland
• Ian Burgham

• Official website