Canongate Books

Critically acclaimed author Feryal Ali-Gauhar's UK debut An Abundance of Wild Roses is a novel that combines lyrical storytelling with urgent contemporary themes of gender violence, tradition and...

From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son's best...

The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism:...

The third book in the festive series from number one bestselling author Matt Haig, and featuring enchanting illustrations from Chris MouldAuthor: Matt HaigPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date:...

Fear Stalks the Land! : A Comonplace BookAuthor: Thom Yorke, Stanley DonwoodPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The elusive lives of otters, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye's enchanting lyrical style A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL Footprints in the Woods is John...

'Girl A' was convicted of murdering three people when she was a child. Now she's missing and a man is dead. The clock is ticking for Scottish detective DCI Christine Caplan to bring her to justice -...

Let the Light Pour InAuthor: Lemn SissayPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: Mar 05, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1805301136ISBN-13: 9781805301134

Hope and Summer Bailey have their work cut out for them when a man who seems to be The Hermit from their Tarot card readings is found dead in their back yard! In the fun and exciting third instalment...

Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life in university...

Signed indie exclusive hardback editionA sharp and addictive modern debut set in Dublin, about female friendship and our obsession with being online - from an exciting new voice in Irish...

An instant Sunday Times bestseller, O Brother is by turns heart-breaking and hilarious - evoking a working-class childhood of the 1970-80s and trying to answer the questions that often haunt the...

Outpost : A Journey to the Wild Ends of the EarthAuthor: Dan RichardsPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: Aug 11, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

And I have done more than just simply get bySo much more than escape or surviveThrough the galvanisation of love, time and patienceI'll take hold of my story and thrive.After life that was seldom...

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New...

Simon's Cat: It's a Dog's LifeAuthor: Simon TofieldPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: October 01, 2019Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1786897008ISBN-13:...

Small Bodies Of Water - 9781838852184Author: Nina Mingya. PowlesPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: Apr 18, 2023Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Beautiful Poetry of Donald TrumpAuthor: Rob SearsPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: November 05, 2019Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

Elle and her friends are back! This time, they'll be leaping to the past, the present and the future to safeguard the secret of The Gift and destroy The Vicious Circle Fourteen-year-old Elle and her...

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job, a...

In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects...

Moving from Khartoum, Sudan, to Washington, D.C., and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home The Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum...

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life's...

Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels good and does good. Did you know...

Master storyteller David Hewson launches a major new series featuring retired archivist Arnold Clover Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal,...

It's New Year's Eve and there's trouble on the timeline. Elle is sent on an urgent trip to the 31st of December 1999, the eve of the new millennium, where Millennia's on the rampage. She aims to...

A stylish, atmospheric detective story with shades of the Gothic - from the author of the award-winning cult classic The Cutting Room SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 'Superb' The Times Crime...

Simon Westow, the city's unwavering thief-taker, must confront betrayal, history and murder in this gritty page-turner set in nineteenth-century Leeds. Leeds, May 1825. Thief-taker Simon Westow is...

A rock-climber's eye view of the natural world, tracing a geological and personal journey across the British IslesAuthor: Anna FlemingPublisher: Canongate BooksPublication Date: Mar 12, 2024Number of...

Jim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds, he is a big man at the university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the ivory tower. He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and two...