New Anne Donovan novel for Canongate

Canongate has acquired Gone Are the Leaves, a new novel from Glasgow-based author Anne Donovan.

Jo Dingley, assistant editor, acquired world rights from Gill Coleridge at Rogers, Coleridge and White.

Dingley said: "Anne Donovan is completely unique, and a new novel from her is always a major literary event. Gone Are the Leaves is full of the wonder, grace and charm for which her writing is so beloved. It is a truly enchanting story with echoes of Celtic myth and Arthurian legend."

Set in the medieval past, Gone Are the Leaves tells the story of Feilamort and Deirdre, two friends living in the home of a Scottish laird and his French wife.

Canongate published Donovan’s debut novel Buddha Da in 2003, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award and won the Scottish Book of the Year Award. Canongate also published her collection of short stories Hieroglyphics, and her second novel Being Emily.

Gone Are the Leaves will be published in April 2014.