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In 2015, KS published a provocative piece in The Guardian, challenging publishers and authors to correct gender imbalance in the industry by making 2018 the year of publishing only women in the UK...

NS , a Scotswoman, published between 1928 and 1934 three novels and a volume of poems. A volume of nature-writing or memoir about her relationship with the Cairngorm mountains proved unacceptable during the 1940s, and...

The first edition, by Viking Press in New York, was issued in two-volume boxed sets. Geoff Dyer , in his introduction to the Canongate edition of 2006, notes West's probing of the painful...

NM published with Canongate of EdinburghThe Cleansing of the Knife, and other poems, which collects the poetry she wrote during World War Two.

WM had conceived and begun work on this novel by 1926, planning to set it in Montrose, her childhood town. She did not start working on it in earnest, however, until 1930...

In the run-up to Spark's centenary in 2018, Canongate published in 2016 omnibus volumes which each contain the text of three of her novels, under titles like Spark's Satire and Spark's Europe, and Polygon

JW 's Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles appeared as one of the two opening titles in Canongate 's Myths series.

JT wrote introductions to the two books of the Bible that have female protagonists—Ruth and Esther—for Pocket Canons Bible II, published by Canongate Books in 1998. Next year these appeared alone as The Books...

AS contributed a modern reworking of the Iphis and Ianthe myth from Ovid 's Metamorphoses to the Canongate Myth Series; her short novel Girl Meets Boy resituates Ovid's classic tale of lesbian romance and gender...

In 1987 the Edinburgh publisher Canongate initiated a revival of interest in NS . It reprinted The Quarry Wood that year, The Weatherhouse in 1988, and in 1996 an omnibus volume, The Grampian Quartet...

In 1999 RR wrote an introduction to St Paul 's Epistle to the Romans, for a Canongate series of biblical books. She also edited with an introduction a collection of writing about murder entitled...

Canongate re-issued WM 's novels Imagined Corners and Mrs Ritchie in a volume, Imagined Selves, shared with her three essays Mrs Grundy in Scotland, Women: An Inquiry, and Women in Scotland.

MA published one of the two opening titles in Canongate 's Myths series, a feminist retelling of Homer 's Odyssey entitled The Penelopiad, The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.

In 1998 Canongate Books published Pocket Canons Bible II, a selection of books of the Bible with introductions by assorted celebrities. PDJ introduced the Acts of the Apostles.

Atwood says she first read the Odyssey at about fifteen and was unpleasantly struck by the fact that Odysseus, after his triumphal homecoming and reunion with his faithful wife, kills not only the suitors whom...