Canongate Books

Edinburgh publisher Canongate Books turned around its fortunes last year, lifted by a clutch of bestsellers and soaring digital sales. The firm, which made an operating loss of about £406,000 in 2011, turned that into a profit of £976,000 in 2012.

“Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals,” the debut work of author Amy Leach, available in the UK from Edinburgh independent publisher Canongate Books, collects essays, meditations, prose poems and occasional pieces from a new American nonfiction specialist whose excursions are as imaginative and inspired as any work of fancy. “Come and miss the [...]

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