Do you love bookshops?

So do we.

In association with Waterstones, we’re launching Elsewhere in five cities across the UK to celebrate the collection and one of the most important things in our society – a good bookshop.

If you’re in Manchester, you can see award winning authors David Vann and Rodge Glass. Glasgow? You get legendary Scottish author William McIlvanney and rising poetry star Jen Hadfield. In Edinburgh, you’re spoiled with four stars – John Fardell, James Robertson, Vivian French and Doug Johnstone are together. Inverness sees Barry Hutchison and Anne Donovan chat about the collection while Andy Stanton is in London. It’s one of the biggest book launches in UK history – come join us on our year long campaign to support bookshops and to celebrate the collection.

Elsewhere is entirely new. Elsewhere is a world we dream of visiting. Elsewhere is all the places we have ever been. Elsewhere is Here, There, Somewhere and Everywhere.

The Elsewhere collection brings together many of the most influential and acclaimed writers in the world today. In the four themed volumes of Here, There, Somewhere and Everywhere, these writers explore what it means to them to be elsewhere.

Elsewhere was commissioned in 2010 by the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and its publication marks an innovative publishing and design collaboration between Glasgow-based publisher Cargo and US-based McSweeney’s.