Publishing · Canary Books
Ideas worth keeping.
Books that put whole-mind thinking into your hands, to read on your own time, or to work through with a team. Practical, evidence-informed, and built to be used.
New book
The Honest Scale
Norse Parables on Spotting a Cheat Before He Spots You
by Wayne Lyell Davies · Canary Books
Every market has its weighers, and not every scale tells the truth. Set in a Norse fairy-tale world of traders, fishing towns and long winters, these short parables follow ordinary people as they learn to tell an honest deal from a crooked one, often the hard way.
- Short, memorable stories in the tradition of The Richest Man in Babylon
- Each tale ends with the signs to look out for
- Practical lessons on trust, money and judgement
- A quick read for anyone who has been taken in, or never wants to be
The book
The State You’re In
The Invisible Hand Shaping Your World
by Wayne Lyell Davies · Canary Books
How you focus, respond, and recover is your state, and it quietly shapes every decision you make and every room you walk into. This book makes that invisible architecture visible, and shows you how to work with it rather than against it.
- Plain language, grounded in how attention and stress actually work
- Practical takeaways you can use the same day
- Honest about what change takes, with no quick fixes
- Pairs naturally with coaching and the Neuro/State Dynamics assessment
For readers
Get the books
The Honest Scale is out now on Amazon. Buying for a team or a class? Ask us about group orders.
For writers
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Canary Books, our imprint, publishes new voices as well as our own. See what we look for and how we work with authors.
Our imprint
Canary Books. We publish authors too.
Every book on this page is published under Canary Books, our own imprint. We also open our doors to other writers.
The name comes from the coal mines. After the Tylorstown colliery disaster of 1896, the scientist John Scott Haldane set out to understand what was killing miners underground, and the small canary became the miner’s early warning. It noticed what others couldn’t, and its sensitivity saved lives. We think good books work the same way. They notice what others miss, and say it plainly. Canary Books is for writers who see the world like that.
Publishing with Canary Books
For authors with something real to say, and readers who will be better for hearing it.
What we look for
- Practical nonfiction on the mind, work and wellbeing
- Parables, fables and wisdom stories
- Fiction with a clear heart and a point of view
- Voices that don’t fit the usual mould
What we do with you
- Shape the idea and the manuscript
- Editing and proofreading
- Cover design, layout and production
- Print and ebook editions on Amazon
What stays yours
- Your voice, which we sharpen and never replace
- Your name on the cover
- A clear, plain agreement before any work starts
- A small imprint, so you work with real people
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