A fortunate Canongate sign Berger reissue

Canongate has signed UK and Commonwealth rights to John Berger's 1967 book, A Fortunate Man, which has been out of print for a decade.

Publishing director Francis Bickmore signed the deal with Teresa Pinto at Carmen Balcells.

The new edition will be released in hardback in spring 2015 featuring a new introduction from GP and writer Gavin Francis.

The book documents three months that Berger spent shadowing GP John Sassall, looking at what it means to be a doctor. It features photographs by Jean Mohr.

Bickmore said: "John Berger is one of the greatest thinkers of the last one hundred years. This is one of his masterpieces, a book that gets to the heart of what it means to heal. I can’t wait to reintroduce this to British readers with this beautiful new edition."

Berger, who now lives in the Alps, won the Booker Prize in 1972 for his novel, G.