Alasdair Roberts at Margins 2012 from Inner Ear on Vimeo.

We shot these cool wee videos with our pals at Inner Ear,talking to Helen Fitzgerald, Allan Wilson, Octavius Mag’s Sam Best and Alasdair Roberts. They’re talking favourite books, music, Margins events. Check them out.

Judges for 2012 are Cargo author Alan Bissett, top literary agent Jenny Brown, superstar children’s author Phillip Pullman and national treasure Stephen Fry.

Entries close March 1st. For full details, see www.dundeebookprize.com.

The prize is awarded and the book published in October.

Malcolm Middleton and his brand new band make a triumphant return to Glasgow with the exclusive showcase of his forthcoming Human Don’t Be Angry album. The album marks another classic from Middleton after albums like the critically acclaimed “A Brighter Beat” Better yet, there’s support from his fellow Arab Strap band mate Aidan Moffat, joined by Bill Wells, following their 2011 album “Everything’s Getting Older” that topped many end of year polls and best of lists. Be quick off the mark in grabbing tickets; Malcolm and Aidan’s Arab Strap reunion in November sold out in less than an hour.

In the meantime, enjoy one of Malcolm’s classics- we’re actually not all gonna die, right? Still the best attempt to make a Christmas number one ever.

Get tickets here.

Friday features a spectacular bill of new writing from Octavius Magazine and Scotland’s top literary mag Gutter Magazine. There’s top crime writing from Chris Brookmyre and Louise Welsh and the night rounds off with one of the best folk/indie bills Scotland can offer with Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble, the ever-popular Withered Hand and rising star Alasdair Roberts.

Saturday includes a packed lineup with everything from Sky Sports pundit Graham Hunter discussing his new book on FC. Barcelona to a book launch of a new charity collection A Thousand Cranes with a foreword by the First Minister Alex Salmond. Other appearing writers include William McIllvanney, Sara Sheridan, Helen Fitzgerald, Don Paterson, Tom Leonard and Billy Letford. And Cargo’s very own Allan Wilson and Tracey S. Rosenberg.

Sunday boasts a unique event in a read-through of Alasdair Gray’s acclaimed play Fleck at the main auditorium in Oran Mor, designed and painted by Gray himself. It will feature writers and actors including Chiew Siah-Tei, Zoe Strachan and Carl MacDougall.

Visit www.marginsfestival.com or call 0141 565 1000 for tickets.

Also, two of our writers were named in the hottest new writers in The List, Allan Wilson and Simon Sylvester. Well done lads.

It’s been a terrific year and the whole Cargo team want to thank all our fans for the support and dedication to what we do. We love ye’s; see you in 2012!

Ps-Check out this cracking gift from The Famous Grouse for our placing in the Hot 100.

Aye, that’s right-30%, sometimes more, off every book and ebook. Just in time for Christmas. Head over to Books and shop to your heart’s delight-all while supporting independent publishing and artists.

“Nothing Human Left” by Simon Ashe-Browne is the winner of the 2011 Dundee International Book Prize. The £10,000 cash prize also sees the book published by Cargo.

A pulsating psychological thriller, Hollywood actor Brian Cox (Troy, The Bourne Supremacy) reads from the first chapter.

You can buy the book here: http://www.cargopublishing.com/nothing-human-left/

STV News Tayside interviewed Dundee International Prize Winner Simon Ashe-Browne as he prepared to be presented with the £10,000 cash prize and the publishing deal with Cargo.

We’re delighted to announce that Simon Ashe-Browne has won the

2011 Dundee International Book Prize. Irish author Simon beat
out over a hundred entries and the final ten on the shortlist
to win the £10,000 prize and have his book, Nothing Human Left,
be published by Cargo.

Simon (26) won the prize for his novel `Nothing Human Left’ a
psychological thriller set in a Dublin public school as a schoolboy’s
criminal desires reach a frightening conclusion.

“Winning the Dundee International Book Prize and having my novel
published by Cargo is a major game changer for me” said Simon. “It
is the realisation of a dream I’ve had since I was eight years old and
a validation of all those house spent scratching away at the page.”

He was handed the prize at a gala dinner staged as part of the
Dundee Literary Festival, featuring leading authors and the actor Brian
Cox.

The £10,000 prize is the largest offered in the UK to unpublished
authors. Simon will also now speak at this week’s Dundee Literary
Festival at the University of Dundee. His winning book is now on sale.

The Dundee International Book Prize is a collaboration between the
University of Dundee, Cargo Publishing and Dundee City Council’s ‘One
City, Many Discoveries’ campaign. It has been sponsored this year by the
Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa.

The winner was picked by a panel of judges made up of Anna Day,
Director of Literary Dundee; Mark Buckland, Head of Cargo Publishing;
and Emily Dewhurst of Kitchen Press.

Mark Buckland, Managing Director of Cargo, said, “We’re delighted
to be the publisher for the prize and we’re looking to develop the
prize in the coming years into something that can really support and
energise authors like Simon.”

Anna Day, Director of Literary Dundee – a University of Dundee-led
initiative to promote interest in literature – said, “We have a very
deserving winner in Simon. This is a tremendous book and we hope to see
it go on to sell many copies. We received well over 100 high quality
entries from around the world but Simon’s book stood out.”

Councillor Will Dawson, convener of Dundee City Council’s city
development committee, said, “Our reputation as a centre of literary
and artistic excellence in many fields continues to develop and grow.
A rich storytelling tradition runs through Dundee, whether it be in
song, literature, as a narrative in a computer game or the plot of a
film and the city’s on-going association with encouraging the very best
in that tradition through new novel writing is reflected in the long
standing success of the Book Prize.”

From all at Cargo, we’d like to congratulate Simon with the win and
we’re delighted to be the official publisher for the prize. We’re hoping
this is the beginning of a long and successful partnership between
University of Dundee, Dundee City Council and the prize itself.

Nothing Human Left, a tense psychological thriller, is available in all
good bookstores and from us direct here at Cargo.

You can buy the collection here and keep up to date with all Allan’s goings on on this page or at www.allanwilsonbooks.com