Canongate Books: 273 books
Lily Vanilli's Sweet Tooth: Recipes and Tips from a Modern Artisan Bakery
Recipes and Tips from a Modern Artisan Bakery
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Since she started out selling her cakes at a market in East London, Lily Jones (aka Vanilli) has gone on to become one of Britain's best-loved artisan bakers. With a star-studded client list and a thriving bakery on Columbia Road, Lily's bakes are famous for their unique flavour combinations, spectacular...
by James Meek
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.
by J.G. Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The authoritative 1890 edition with an introduction by Cairns Craig and Frazer’s own afterword. Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic led Scottish anthropologist J.G. Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across...
by Anne Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This selection includes more than eighty of the finest ballads, together with an introduction, notes and glosses. The versions come from the last three centuries-from the time of Burns and Scott, who were among the earliest collectors, up to the present day. Although the ballads are anonymous in a...
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . . In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature....
Farewell Miss Julie Logan
A Barrie Omnibus: The Little White Bird: The Twelve-Pound Look: Farewell Miss Julie Logan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Edited and introduced by Andrew Nash. This selection of J M Barrie’s work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose...
by Kader Abdolah
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. Now it is occupied by three cousins: Aqa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city's bazaar; Alsaberi, the imam of the mosque and Aqa Shoja, the mosque's muezzin. The house itself teems with life, as each of their families...
HELL
Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante’s La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dante’s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Accessible,...
PURGATORY
Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2019
In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to reach Heaven. In this sublime version of Dante’s masterpiece, Alasdair Gray offers an original translation...
by James Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Introduced by Edwin Morgan. In this haunting poem from the latter part of the nineteenth century, Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern age’s nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation and spiritual despair. In contrast to the late Victorian confidence all...
by DBC Pierre
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In the town jail of Martirio – the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas – sits fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, dressed only in New Jack trainers and underpants. He is in trouble. His friend Jesus has just blown away sixteen of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. And Vernon, as...
by Karin Alvtegen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Monika is driven to succeed as a doctor - but cannot allow herself any personal happiness. Maj-Britt is desperate to be left alone - but why does she shun society? A tragic accident brings these two strangers together, forcing them to confront their darkest fears. In this psychological thriller, Karin...
Dancing with the Gods
Reflections on Life and Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
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 doubts and yearnings of his own youth. Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: a letter of...