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Tilda Swinton is one of the most celebrated actors of her generation. She is also an iconoclast, an artist, a style icon and, now, an author.
From now on, royalties for all Canongate contracts will be paid four times a year rather than twice, getting money into authors’ and agents’ hands more regularly and more quickly.
We are receiving multiple messages every day from writers who have been targeted by fraudulent emails pretending to come from Canongate editors. Please be extremely wary of approaches like these. Here’s what to look out for.
If this Be Magic by Daniel Hahn – “a superbly diverting book about language and creativity” – is the Guardian’s book of the day.
Filled with “delight and endless curiosity … By the end of the book, Hahn has amply demonstrated not only the treasures of other languages, but also the rich and strange inexhaustibility of Shakespeare himself.”
Matt Haig’s bestselling new novel The Midnight Train is out now – and you can read the first chapter right here.
Prefer to listen? Listen to the extract from the audiobook as read by James Norton!
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