Canongate Books

  • Louis Wain’s Cats

    $60.00
    Hardcover
    Read more

    ‘Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world’. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become th[more below]

    • Author: Beetles, Chris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 1838854703
    • Language: English
  • Arboretum

    $34.00
    Hardcover
    Read more

    For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerP

    [more below]

    • Author: Byrne, David
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: December 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1786899507
    • Language: English
  • Dancing with the Gods: Reflections on Life and Art

    $24.00
    Hardcover
    Add to cart

    When Kent Nerburn received a letter from Jennifer, a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubt… [more below]

    • Author: Nerburn, Kent
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: June 05 2018
    • ISBN10: 1786891158
    • Language: English
  • Voyageurs

    $18.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    In the early 1800s, Rachel Greenhow, a young Quaker, goes missing in the Canadian wilderness. Unable to accept the disappearance, her brother Mark leaves his farm in England, determined to bring his s

    [more below]

    • Author: Elphinstone, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: February 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1841955019
    • Language: English
  • The Second Cut

    $18.00
    Paperback
    Read more

    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 Book o

    [more below]

    • Author: Welsh, Louise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 1838850899
    • Language: English
  • The Medici Murders

    $18.00
    Paperback
    Read more

    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, intrigue

    [more below]

    • Series: Venetian Mystery #1
    • Author: Hewson, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 183885858X
    • Language: English
  • Mrs Death Misses Death

    $26.00
    Hardcover
    Read more

    LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

    Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a trouble

    [more below]

    • Author: Godden, Salena
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1838851194
    • Language: English
  • 1982, Janine

    $16.00
    Paperback
    Read more

    Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasizing about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely… [more below]

    • Author: Gray, Alasdair
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: February 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1786893967
    • Language: English
  • The Goddess Chronicle

    $16.00
    Paperback
    Read more

    On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.

    But what will happen

    [more below]

    • Series: Canons
    • Author: Kirino, Natsuo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1786899175
    • Language: English
  • To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

    $16.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers pla

    [more below]

    • Series: Canons #71
    • Author: Laing, Olivia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1786891581
    • Language: English
  • The Time Thief

    $10.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Elle is back! This time she’s leaping almost three whole centuries back in time, to catch a thief, help her friend and save our future

    It’s midsummer’s day and thirteen-year-old Elle and her Leapling c

    [more below]

    • Series: Leap Cycle #2
    • Author: Agbabi, Patience
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1786899906
    • Language: English
  • None of This Is Serious

    $18.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    ‘Extraordinary’ Naoise Dolan
    ‘Seriously good’ Louise Nealon

    PICKED AS ‘ONE TO WATCH’ FOR 2022 BY IRISH TIMES, STYLIST AND IRISH INDEPENDENT

    Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They

    [more below]

    • Author: Prasifka, Catherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 183885553X
    • Language: English
  • Na?e. Super

    $17.00
    Paperback
    Read more

    Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother’s New York apartment.

    In a bid

    [more below]

    • Author: Loe, Erlend
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 196
    • Publish Date: July 07 2005
    • ISBN10: 1841956724
    • Language: English
  • Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork

    $50.00
    Hardcover
    Read more

    A celebration of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac, this book showcases more than 300 color artworks. It features a dialogue between Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood about the creative process and

    [more below]

    • Author: Yorke, Thom
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 364
    • Publish Date: March 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1838857370
    • Language: English
  • The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

    $28.00
    Hardcover
    Read more

    Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world’s most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it’s long been a meeting place for anglophone writers

    [more below]

    • Author: Biles, Adam
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 1805300032
    • Language: English
  • The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump

    $22.00
    Hardcover
    Read more

    What if there’s a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump’s words for signs of poetry.

    What he found was a revelation. By sim

    [more below]

    • Author: Sears, Rob
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1786894726
    • Language: English
  • Restless Dolly Maunder

    $26.00
    Hardcover
    Add to cart

    The international bestselling author of The Secret River and
    A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother’s
    life, commemorating a strong female character making the best
    [more below]

    • Author: Grenville, Kate
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1805302485
    • Language: English
  • The Infinite

    $10.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    “What an inspiration. The future just got so much better” ― Benjamin Zephaniah

    FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME!

    The Infinite is a mind-bending, time-twisting adventure for readers who loved TIME TRAVELLI

    [more below]

    • Series: Leap Cycle #1
    • Author: Agbabi, Patience
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1786899655
    • Language: English
  • Girl Meets Boy

    $18.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?

    Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind

    [more below]

    • Series: Canons
    • Author: Smith, Ali
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: February 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1786892472
    • Language: English
  • Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book

    $15.00
    Paperback
    Read more

    In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together.

    This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings t

    [more below]

    • Author: Yorke, Thom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: December 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 1838857362
    • Language: English
Shopping Cart