Hello, fans and friends of Canongate Books!

We’re now smack dab in the middle of summer and the streets around the Canongate office are awash with tourists as the Festival season gets into full swing. We’ve got several authors appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, including Richard Holloway (already sold out, sorry!), M.J. Hyland (just announced, buy your tickets quickly), David Simon, Geoff Dyer, Niccolo Ammaniti, Michel Faber... check out the festival programme and be sure to book your tickets as soon as you can!

We’re holding our first Twitter interview (and what we think is the first rock Twitter interview) this week – log on to twitter.com and search for the hashtag #TheFallen to follow the chat – if you have a question for Dave Simpson (author of The Fallen, out in paperback this month, Tweeting as @davesimps0n), or any of the three former members of The Fall also taking part (including Mike Leigh, who hasn’t been seen in 29 years!), then get yourself online and on Twitter at 8pm on 5 August!

Our latest Myth is also published this month – Klas Ostergren’s The Hurricane Party tackles the Norse myth of Loki and it’s a stormer. If you haven’t yet read any Ostergren (we published Gentlemen in hardback in 2008 and paperback in 2009), you should definitely check him out, he’s an absolute classic!

And while we’re talking modern classics, acclaimed American author Ron Rash is being published for the first time in the UK. His ninth novel, Serena, won recognition as one of the best books of 2008 from the Washington Post, New York Times, Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, and more. Our current discussion on Goodreads has also seen one reader describe it as one of her favourite books of this year.

More paperbacks published this month include A-list litblogger Mark Sarvas’s tragicomic Harry, Revised; Richard Hollway’s Between The Monster and the Saint, and Giller Prize-winning author M.G. Vassanji’s The Assassin’s Song. Myth, music, philosophy, fiction – we think this month is a great showcase of Canongate’s breadth of literary publishing, and we hope you all enjoy it!