Canongate acquires World rights to Quicksand Tales by Keggie Carew

Simon Thorogood, Editorial Director at Canongate, has acquired World rights from Patrick Walsh at PEW Literary to Keggie Carew’s Quicksand Tales.

Quicksand Tales is a wonderful collection of stories of embarrassing, awkward, uncomfortable, regrettable, funny and all-too-relatable moments from Keggie’s life. Thorogood said ‘All of Keggie’s considerable writerly skills are on display in this funny, moving and occasionally poignant quasi-memoir. Her writing here puts me in mind of a female David Sedaris or Geoff Dyer. I’m so pleased that Keggie has come to Canongate with this book.’

Carew said, ‘I’m over the moon that Quicksand Tales will be published by the maverick, innovative, inspiring Canongate, and thrilled to be working with Simon Thorogood, as my editor of these true, terrible, truly terrible tales of my skew-eyed world.’

Keggie Carew is the author of Dadland, which won the Costa Book Awards 2016 in the Biography category.
https://canongate.co.uk/news/quicksand-tales-acquisition/?ref=47641
canongate.co.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-17
17563
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:C4UAZCTMNDWEZQBIFIN4BMTKU6FR3JNX
<urn:uuid:271d58d0-266b-4f3e-a2a1-c54d53b914f1>
2018-04-23T21:21:42Z
205.186.164.69
text/html
sha1:NK3M4KYXN7T57JPSYCA6A45ZWRXC3MXN
<urn:uuid:65c8ffb9-7a91-4a31-992c-ea6341e660eb>
https://canongate.co.uk/news/quicksand-tales-acquisition/?ref=47641
response
<urn:uuid:72b172de-e1ed-4d4d-8675-4966a9122553>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-186-217-96.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf