Books published by Canongate Books

A STORY OF REVOLUTION, OBSESSION AND ONE MAN'S HUNGER

The paperback outing of this engaging and enlightening history of letter-writing and our relationship with the mail, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map

1943. Wartime England. Married to a Guardsman at the age of eighteen, Helen Woodley believed her future was assured - only to be widowed before she was forty. And now Helen is faced with an unwelcome sense of deja vu - her eighteen year old daughter has fallen for a soldier. Can Helen prevent history from repeating itself?

When Oxford don Michael Flint travels to Fosse House in the Fens to research a book on WWI music and poetry, he is at once aware of the house's eerie menace. And when Michael is forced to spend the night in the house, a dark fragment of the past begins to stir. A fragment that Michael may not be able to resist.

Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; sacrificed for the common good; sacrificed, then forgotten.

The definitive biography of Scotland's legendary leader by British novelist and former Sunday Times literary critic, Ronald McNair Scott

A vivid account of one of the most important conflicts in British history, reissued to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn

1101: Sir Geoffrey Mappestone is travelling home in the company of a knight carrying an urgent message for the king. When the knight is killed during an ambush, Geoffrey feels obliged to deliver the message himself: but quickly regrets his decision when the king orders him to spy on his own family in order to ferret out a dangerous traitor...

Clare Taylor arrives home after a wild week in Chicago to discover that the house has been stripped bare and there's no sign of her husband and two daughters. By dawn next morning, her house has been foreclosed against, there's a dead body in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976.

'A superb collection: a series of brief lives which McIlvanney passes through the eye of a very sharp needle' Literary Review

'Like Docherty, another masterpiece' The Scotsman

'Sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent' The Times

The sequel to the Whitbread Prize-winning Docherty

It's 1982, and Henry Christie is a young cop with a point to prove and an attitude to control. When a series of rash decisions results in disaster, Henry determines to put things right his own way, despite being warned off by his detective inspector. But his impetuous actions lead to more conflict - and a very real threat to his own life.

A celebration of Sierra from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane

When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin, her ruthless nephew George seizes the opportunity to take control of his aunt's assets.