Books published by Canongate Books

Early one morning, as Lassair leaves her Fenland village on a personal mission she discovers the body of a young woman. As Lassair wonders who killed the girl and why, she swiftly becomes mystified and frightened. Why did a sweet seamstress have to die? Suspicion soon creeps close to home; then another body is found. . .

The memoir of one man's journey from addiction back to sobriety and sanity via the road

A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, about love and family, about war and resilience, about how we live in this world, and how we leave it

The ran right in front of Cathy Weaver's car, running from killers who were closing in on him. Victor Holland's story sounded like the ravings of a madman, but his claim to be a fugitive was confirmed by the haunted look in his eyes--and the bullet hole in his shoulder. As each hour passes Cathy has to wonder, is she trusting a man in danger or trusting her life to a dangerous man?

Hampshire, 1850: Under the watchful eyes of her guardian, Lord Edward Sharland, and an excellent estate manager, Beth Langton has been running her large family estate. After a week away, terrible news is waiting for her. The father of her best friend, Lady Helen Denton, has shot himself, leaving Helen destitute.

Thriller writer Victor Tempest is dead and his son, the disgraced ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, is discovering what really happened in the unsolved Brighton Trunk Murder of 1934. At the same time, DS Sarah Gilchrist has a lead that may establish the truth about the Milldean Massacre. If she can stay alive long enough to follow it . . .

Winter, 1211. Former abbess Helewise moves back to her cell near Hawkenlye Abbey, putting a strain on her relationship with Sir Josse D'Acquin, who is called to examine the bodies of three men, one of whom bears a complicated symbol carved into his chest.

Disbarred Texas lawyer Edward Hall accepts an offer to represent the most obviously guilty defendant in town. If he handles this case well - meaning he needs to lose - he has a chance to regain his law licence. But as the trial approaches, Edward finds himself having to solve and prove a completely different case: one of cold-blooded murder.

A novel about 1950s America, a marriage in crisis, and a family falling apart at the seams, from the critically-acclaimed author of Darke

A man impaled on the South Downs. Another skinned alive. A skeleton found beneath the West Pier, its feet encased in concrete. Brighton has been invaded. But this is no mere power struggle between rival mobsters; the motives for the killings go back through the decades, to a 40-year-old secret Brighton's crime king John Hathaway would rather forget

Mark Helston, the rising star of Hunt Coffee Limited, was successful and popular, with plenty of money and everything to live for. Yet at half past seven on the evening of the ninth of January, 1925, he walked out of his Albemarle Street flat and disappeared.