Maile Meloy on Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Find out about new short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It from author Maile Meloy, and read one of the stories here on Bookhugger.

Win a copy of And This is True, Emily Mackie’s debut novel

Find our more about Emily Mackie’s debut novel, watch a trailer and try and win a copy too.

More Than Words

Canongate stalwarts Dan Rhodes and Louise Welsh talk new novels, flat pack furniture and knob gags.

An interview with Emily Mackie

Emily Mackie sits in the Bookhugger hot-seat to talk about her forthcoming debut novel, And This Is True, the book she wishes she had written and her cunning plan to avoid writing postmodern twaddle.

Watch the trailer for Willy Vlautin’s Lean On Pete

From the acclaimed author ofThe Motel Life and Northline and frontman for the band Richmond Fontaine, comes a hugely moving slice of Americana.

The February Competition [closed]

Win great new titles from Faber, Simon & Schuster, Canongate and Sceptre in February’s fabulous Bookhugger competition!

Sam Taylor talks about The Island at the End of the World

George Miller talks to Sam Taylor about his post-apocalyptic vision, The Island at the End of the World, and the three very different narrators that it features.

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February contemporary fiction round-up

February is a busy month for our publishers. From the quirky to the sinister, here’s a stack of the best new releases in contemporary fiction…

The Booklist: Love Hurts

It’s not all wine and roses… witty, cunning, despairing, or just in very bad taste, Bookhugger gives you an alternative choice to the planned perfumed perfection that was Valentine’s Day!

Tobias Hill on The Hidden

You’re ours, Ben. Now you are. Now you’re one of us.

Acclaimed author Tobias Hill discusses his extraordinary novel of ancient secrets, modern conflict and what it costs to belong.

Win a copy of The Boy Next Door [closed]

Find our more about Irene Sabatini’s tale of growing up and falling love amidst the chaos of post-colonial Zimbabwe, watch a trailer and try and win a copy too.

The Book Doctor is in the house

Bookhugger’s mystery medic is back to answer more of your cries for help – just what should you read next after you finish a book you have loved?

January Reading Groups Round-up

If you’re looking for a new book for your reading group look no further – here are a selection of titles with discussion questions ready and waiting.

The Booklist – Winter Warmer

Curl up in front of the fire, and spend some time with a loner in the woods, his cabin insulated by his books; explore the Canadian Northwest with an anthropologist gone native; warm yourself with a wonderful tales from WWII and the Napoleonic Wars; then witness explorers pushing themselves to the limit, all from the comfort of your armchair!

January Contemporary Fiction Round-up

The best of this month’s exciting new releases, and new paperback editions from Canongate, Faber and Hodder & Stoughton.

Win a copy of Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey [closed]

Eddie Russett lives comfortably in a world where fortune, career and ultimate destiny are rigidly dictated by the colours you can see. Until he falls in love with Jane, and starts to question every aspect of the Rulebook.

December Contemporary Fiction Round-up – Best of 2009, Part Two

The second entry featuring the pick of 2009’s best contemporary fiction from Bookhugger’s publishers…

December Contemporary Fiction Round-up – Best of 2009, Part One

The first of two posts featuring the pick of 2009’s best contemporary fiction from Bookhugger’s publishers takes us to a dark town in Derbyshire, witness to a massacre in Tokyo, an apartment building in Paris, and the poppy fields of the Ganges, among other exotic and enticing locations.

Manju Kapur on The Immigrant

Manju Kapur talks to Faber about her latest novel, The Immigrant, an engrossing portrait of an arranged marriage.

Canongate’s fiction highlights of 2009

2009 has been an amazing year. It really kicked off with a bang with the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, and Canongate really has had a fun time publishing fiction we love. Before looking towards the publishing about to come, here are some highlights from our 2009 fiction list.

Join Hector in his search for happiness

Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He’s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they’re just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can’t do much for them, and it’s beginning to depress him.

See Going West brought to life

A scalpel has brought to life a classic Kiwi novel in a compelling ad produced for The New Zealand Book Council.