Books published by Canongate Books

The award-winning cult classic. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award

The bestselling, critically acclaimed novel of cursed books, quantum physics and the power of love

A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company

A fierce and fresh debut novel, set over the course of two decades in Nigeria, about sisterhood, fate and female resistance

The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love

A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A memoir with a message - about growing up in care and finding hope, determination and creativity - from British poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay

How to understand the deviance that lies in ourselves and others - an original and rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with art at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com

A brave, brilliant and unprecedented examination of menopause from the author of the cult classic, Suicide Blonde

An intimate, enigmatic glimpse into the mind of the legendary musician and internationally bestselling author of How Music Works. With a new introduction by the author

This New York Times bestseller teaches us to rediscover hope in a world which seems dark and uncertain

A haunting tale of love and vengeance, from the internationally bestselling author of Silk

A wry and lyrical take on what it means to be an outsider through the lens of one of mythology's most monstrous creatures: the Minotaur

A brand new story from the much-loved Simon's Cat as he goes over to the bark side

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with music at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with love at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with war at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com

Jim Dodge's unforgettable outlaw epic. Introduced by Thomas Pynchon

An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

The new adult novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, about power, privilege and peer pressure

A powerful and profound study of the news - how we read it, who controls it and why it matters - from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger

A blisteringly powerful self-portrait of 'The Angry Man of Jazz', contemporary of jazz genius Miles Davis

A glittering coming-of-age tale set in '70s Los Angeles

An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the International Man Booker Prize.

'Undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book' Sunday TimesA dark and beautiful tale full of pain and longing, introduced by Tim Parks

An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture, by the critically-acclaimed writer and filmmaker