Canongate has acquired A Beautiful Loan, the new novel by Mary Costello.

Bickmore added: "Mary Costello is in a class all of her own. Her new novel is an extraordinary investigation into the tension between the exterior facts of a life and the invisible inner world ...

I loved it. This novel disguised as memoir is told from multiple perspectives and timelines. When something terrible happens to her best friend, Annie Marie Callahan flies into a blind panic.

Charlotte Wood’s novel, a Booker Prize finalist, follows an atheist whose mysterious path led her to live among nuns in a ...

"An extraordinary story of family ... in the 1920s and in the 1980s and focused on her healing abilities, this novel reminds us it's never too late for new beginnings," says Courtney.