\ Since 1973, we have worked to discover and amplify the most important and exciting voices we can find, wherever they are, and have published all kinds of books - deep, disturbing, engaging, enchanting, vulgar, chaste, unrepentant, life-changing…Over the years, we have seen notable achievements in the novel world, among them the masterpiece \[Alasdair Grey\] (https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/6830-alasdair-gray/) \[\* Lanark\*\] (https://canongate.co.uk/books/28-lanark-a-life-in-four-books/) ” , and the novel \[Jan Martel\] (https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/2607-yann-martel/)“ \[\*Hyatt Bay \*\] (https://canongate.co.uk/books/318-life-of-pi/), the best-selling Booker of all time, as well as non-fiction, starting withBarack Obama's memoirs “ \[\*Dreams from My Father\]” (https://canongate.co.uk/books/1033-dreams-from-my-father-a-story-of-race-and-inheritance/) down to Samin Nusrat's new classic cookbook “[\*Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” \*](https://canongate.co.uk/books/2153-salt-fat-acid-heat-mastering-the-elements-of-good-cooking/) . We have championed causes we believe in, and fought court battles to make our authors' voices heard. We have won the Publisher of the Year award twice.We are deeply independent, and we remain as committed to unconventional and innovative publishing as we have always been.