Книги Canongate

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, ...

Dreams From My Father. A Story of Race and Inheritance | An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a youn...

The Gift of Rain | Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato En...

Orlando | ‘He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed ‘Truth! Truth! Truth!’ we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.’ A...

How Beautiful We Were | Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spill...

Paper Cup | What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn’t believe in serendipity, but a r...

I'm Not Scared | One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele ...

The Cone-Gatherers | In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits ...

Serena | George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever s...

The Possession of Mr Cave | Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother’s suicide and his wife’s murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grote...

Benjamin's Crossing | There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream… Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has bee...

The Last Family in England | Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their Labrador. Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenet...

Dante's Divine Trilogy | In 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. Lyric...

Bobby March Will Live Forever | Who is to blame when no one is innocent? The papers want blood. The force wants results. The law must be served, whatever the cost. July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade i...

Lawless | The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangster brothers who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition. LAWLESS is their story. Based on the true account of Matt Bondurant’s grandfathe...

Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black. Collected Stories | Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker a...

Stay With Me | Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is...

The Garden of Angels | When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo...

Bloody January | How much is the truth worth? When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy Glasgow street, he is sure of one thing. This was not a rando...

Wolfish. The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom | Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examin...

The Dark Remains | In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow's o...

The Swedish Art of Ageing Well. Life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you | This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brin...

The Gargoyle | A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. The nameless and bea...

The Changeling | Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and h...

Night Boat to Tangier | It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, th...

Drive. The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | A new edition of the bestselling, agenda-setting study of motivation from the international internationally bestselling author of To Sell is Human...

The Bandini Quartet. Wait Until Spring, Bandini. The Road to Los Angeles. Ask the Dust | Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the n...

Learwife | Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows sh...

Weight | Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to sh...

Gone Bamboo | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The Book of Strange New Things | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

Bone In The Throat | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The High Mountains of Portugal | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The Crimson Petal and the White | So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet o...

Ocean Sea | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The Outrun | Категория: прикладная и научно-популярная литература, на английском языке.

The Flame | The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from ...

Chronicle In Stone | In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and ...

The Great Pretender. The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness | In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Dr Rosenhan conducted an experiment, sending sane patients into psychiatr...

The Last Family in England | Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their Labrador.Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenets...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. And Other Lessons from the Crematorium | From the first day of work at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Kathleen Doughty plunged headlong into her new cu...

Dostadning : The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning | Dostadning, or the art of death cleaning, is a Swedish phenomenon by which the elderly and their families set their affairs in order. Whether it...

Let us compare mythologies | First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohens first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate col...

Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories | The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of St...

The Shadow King | Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020book of the year in New york times, guardian, ellie, time, spectator'devastating' Marlon James, 'brilliant' Salman Rushdie, 'magnificent' Aminatt...

The Bachelors | The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery. Ко...

Reasons to Stay Alive | Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed ...

I Go Quiet | I Go Quiet is the exquisite story of an introverted girl, struggling to find her place in a noisy world. Through the power of books, creativity and imagination, she begins to see possibil...

Free Women, Free Men : Sex, Gender, Feminism | From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both cele...

The Dead Fathers Club | Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's broth...

He Is Mine and I Have No Other | In 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani's house. Quiet and strange...

Weight | Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to sh...

The Mauritanian | Previously published as Guantanamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo de...

The Lonely City. Adventures in the Art of Being Alone | When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated ...

The Little Snake | This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, w...

Spark`s Satire | From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three ...

The Brain | "This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life." Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It’s a ...

The Book of Joan | A group of rebels have united to save a world ravaged by war, violence and greed. Joan is their leader. Jean de Men is their foe. The future of humanity is being rewritten.Lidia Yuk...

Animals | Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler's nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up...

To Sell is Human : The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others | We're all on sale right nowparents sell their children when they go to bed. Spouses sell their partners f...

Waiting for the Last Bus : Reflections on Life and Death | Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men...

The Humans | THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE? After an "incident" one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling q...

The Book of Joan | The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children offers a vision of our near-extinction and a heroine — a reimagined Joan of Arc —poised to save a world ravaged by war, violenc...

The Girl Who Saved Christmas | WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC? It is Christmas Eve and all is not well. Amelia Wishart is trapped in Mr Creeper’s workhouse and Christmas is in jeopardy. Magic i...