Canongate Books
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Dante’s Divine Trilogy
$22.00 Read moreIn this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray – in his last work – offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this compl… [more below]
- Series: Canons
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1786897024
- Language: English
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The Artist’s Journey: On Making Art & Being an Artist
$17.00 Read moreA rallying cry for artists.
When Kent Nerburn received a letter from a young woman questioning a life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts an- Author: Nerburn, Kent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1786891174
- Language: English
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
$16.00 Read moreIt had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the lengt
- Author: Ferguson, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1841952885
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
$40.00 Read moreLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection
- Author: Usher, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1838853170
- Language: English
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
$17.00 Read moreA man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he’s splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art schoo
- Series: Canons
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1838852735
- Language: English
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Telling Tales
$20.00 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015
Tabard Inn to Canterb’ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it’s the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnot- Author: Agbabi, Patience
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1782111573
- Language: English
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Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
$17.00 Read moreIn this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but … [more below]
- Author: Chapman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1838857877
- Language: English
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The Raw Shark Texts
$19.00 Read moreFirst things first, stay calm.
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he- Series: Canons
- Author: Hall, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1838851801
- Language: English
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Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Jong-Un & Friends
$17.00 Read moreThere are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YO
- Author: Sears, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1786898640
- Language: English
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
$16.00 Read more‘Probably the greatest novel of the century‘ Observer
‘Remarkable . . . A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches’ WILLIAM BOYD
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disi
- Series: Canons #01
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1782117148
- Language: English
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The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me
$27.00 Add to cartAn ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement’s early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City – the prequel to Widow Basquiat
Growing up in ’60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next do
- Author: Clement, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1838859276
- Language: English
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Don’t Ask the Dragon
$10.99 Read moreDon’t Ask the Dragon is a beautifully illustrated picture book exploring friendship, belonging and overcoming your fears
Waterstones – The Best Books of 2022: Baby & Toddler
This is the story of Alem, a… [more below]
- Author: Sissay, Lemn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1838854002
- Language: English
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The Circle Breakers
$10.99 Add to cartElle 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 fr
- Series: Leap Cycle #3
- Author: Agbabi, Patience
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1838855793
- Language: English
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Small Bodies of Water
$18.00 Read more‘Remarkable’ Robert Macfarlane
Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied fr
‘Gorgeous’ Amy Liptrot
‘Urgent and nourishing’ Jessica J. Lee- Author: Powles, Nina Mingya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1838852182
- Language: English
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Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden
$26.00 Add to cartWinner of the Nan Shepherd Prize, moving between Trinidad and an idyllic English country garden, this lyrical and reflective book is about the search for home
What is home?
It’s a question that has trou
- Author: Farrell, Marchelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1838858679
- Language: English
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Vladimir Putin: Life Coach
$18.00 Read moreWhat can the rise and reign of this century’s most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine t… [more below]
- Author: Sears, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1786894696
- Language: English
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Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home
$28.00 Read moreA finely-wrought meditation on nature, identity, and the tender hold of the past ― Samantha Walton, author of Everybody Needs Beauty and The Living World
Belonging features reflections on family
- Author: Thomson, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 183885472X
- Language: English
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Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
$18.00 Read moreThere are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.
Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans, and d… [more below]- Author: Richards, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1786891573
- Language: English
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The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information
$22.00 Read more10 mammoth cheeses, 9 people who died laughing, 8 remarkable pistol duels, 7 great sausage events and much, much more
The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing informat
- Author: Wallechinsky, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1838858067
- Language: English
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The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age
$18.00 Read moreWATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, ca
Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science- Author: Hammond, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1786892820
- Language: English
