New Rusbridger to Canongate

Canongate is to publish an "A to Z of the modern news landscape" from former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger this autumn.

Editorial director Simon Thorogood acquired world rights from Rebecca Carter and Janklow & Nesbit for Rusbridger's News: And How to Use it. Canongate published Rusbridger's Breaking News:The Remaking of Journalism and Why it Matters Now last year.

The new book explores the theory and methods of journalism.  Rusbridger said: "More and more surveys of trust show huge confusion about who to believe. With Covid-19 information becomes a matter of life and death. The same will be true of climate change. Why should we trust the media to inform us well? This book explores the theory and methods of journalism and asks what could journalists be doing better at a time of existential crisis for news media?"

News: And How to Use It will be published in hardback this November.

Also out from Canongate this autumn will be Manuel Vilas'  "deeply moving" novel Ordesa. Commissioning editor Jo Dingley acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, including audio, to the book from Sandra Pareja at Casanovas & Lynch. US rights went to Geoff Kloske at Riverhead. The novel will be translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.

Dingley said: "I am incredibly proud to be publishing Ordesa, a novel that has already touched readers across Europe, and to be able to bring the work of Manuel Vilas to the attention of English language readers. Ordesa is a deeply affecting, haunting novel, which is hard to shake from your mind once you’ve been immersed in its pages."

The publication of Ordesa by Canongate will be the first time the poet and novelist's work has been available in English. According to the publisher, Vilas' novel sold 100,000 copies in Spain, and it also won the 2019 Prix Femina Etranger literary prize in France.