Books published by Canongate Books

A story of love, migration, and the search for identity from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists

Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone? is an intimate and vivid portrait of the twentieth-century icon Nina Simone.

From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting at the seams with Egyptian life'Among the best writers in the Middle East today . . . Al Aswany has his own magic' Guardian

Twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse.

A tragic car crash leads to a young girl going missing near the legendary Devil's Chair. Can coroner Martha Gunn and DI Alex Randall sift through fact and fiction, folklore and reality to uncover the truth?

Hannah, her sisters and fourteen-year-old niece Julie set sail from Baltimore on a bonding cruise, and have a dramatic first night when Pia Fanucci, a bubbly bartender magician's assistant whom Hannah befriends, narrowly escapes injury during an illusion. But while Pia may make light of the incident, it's no laughing matter when Julie suddenly disappears.

Now a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson

When a severed finger shows up at the Friday night auction, unlikely heroines Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss have to wonder - where's the rest of the body? A question that leads to festering small-town secrets, and the unraveling of a mystery that shows all is not well in a town famed for its postcard perfect New England charm.

Nan Shepherd's greatest novel; a masterpiece of Scottish modernism. 'A blazingly brilliant writer' - Robert Macfarlane

From New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner

A wry, tender memoir by one of the leading voices on transition and masculinity

'Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer's intelligence' - Ian McEwan

Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit

Travel the continent with this new collection of Muriel Spark's European novels as your guide - an often surprising, occasionally moving, and always unfailingly funny trip

The never-before-published letters of 'literary immortal' (Time) Charles Bukowski on the art of writing

The second instalment in the Tannie Maria Mystery crime series, a dark and delicious follow up to Recipes for Love and Murder