Influential Canongate Editor Steps Down

Judy Moir, editorial director of the small but innovative Edinburgh publisher Canongate, has decided to leave. She says “that she was ‘exhausted’ after a decade and a half of working miracles on a shoestring. She also admitted having difficulties with Canongate’s Byronic owner, Jamie Byng, who brought his unique style and taste to the company after bailing it out with a £100,000 loan.”