The house has expanded quickly to include Cargo Crate, Scotland's first dedicated digital label, and the Margins Book & Music Festival among the current projects.

Chosen as one of the most innovative publishers in the UK by GQ Magazine, they have twice featured in The List Magazine's Hot 100 and won the magazines 2011 Best Newcomer award. They have been nominated for the Scottish Book of The Year award and the Sunday Mail Young Scot of The Year award.

Cargo's authors for 2012 include Michael Morpurgo, Julia Donaldson, Will Self, Roddy Doyle, Ewan Morrison, Amy Bloom, Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Louise Welsh and many more. The two imprints produce fiction, non-fiction, art books, mixes of fiction and non-fiction, selected poetry, short stories and apps/enhanced ebooks for iPhone and iPad.

The 2012 Margins Book & Music Festival saw 70 artists perform including Alasdair Gray, Don Paterson, William McIllvanney, Chris Brookmyre, Tom Leonard, Malcolm Middleton, Roddy Woomble, Aidan Moffat and Withered Hand.

Since 2011, they have been publishers of the Dundee International Book Prize, the largest cash prize in the UK for an unpublished author at £10,000. The 2012 prize is judged by Stephen Fry, Philip Pullman, Alan Bissett and Jenny Brown.

Elsewhere

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From 2013, Cargo will be launching multiple digital projects out-with publishing and plan to expand into magazines, online news and children's books, while increasing the scale of the Margins Book & Music Festival and foreign territories Cargo books are sold in.

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  The Girl In The Bunker
  Tracey S. Rosenberg - Paperback - Cargo
  When 12-year-old Helga Goebbels walks into Hitler's underground shelter, she expects to emerge as the most important girl in the victorious German empire. Bewildered by the lack of celebrations, Helga defies her father's orders to stop asking questions. Horrified to discover how many lies she's been told, she plans to escape from Berlin.
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  The Immaculate Heart
  Andrew Raymond Drennan - Paperback - Cargo
  14-year-old Maggie is obsessed with love, both trying to define it and experience it, thanks to the indifference of her adopted family. Maggie turns to her only friend, 80-year-old Bertrand, driven mad since losing his sweetheart, Rose, during World War II. Maggie explores the world of Rose's letters to Bertrand.
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  Nothing Human Left
  Simon Ashe-Browne - Paperback - Cargo
  Jonathon stopped being funny months ago. Think he'll give up without a fight? That's not how he operates. Instead of ducking gracefully out of the limelight, this clown is scrabbling for centre stage.
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  Somewhere
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  Tales From The Mall
  Ewan Morrison - Paperback - Cargo
  Welcome to the world of the mall. Through stunning short stories, offbeat historical essays and innovative graphics, the author tells us about the dark side of the mall world - the unseen workers, the psychology that drives and builds malls and the sex, scandal and politics that the mall has created.
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  There
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  Wasted In Love
  Allan Wilson - Paperback - Cargo
  'Wasted in Love' charts the relationships of several couples as they fall in and out of love and fight against the everyday problems of life in all its humour, tragedy and joy.
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  The Year Of Open Doors
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  A collection featuring some of Scotland's most promising new writers writing on contemporary Scotland.