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The debut short story collection from the winner of the IMPAC Award, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award: 'The most exciting Irish short story writer of his generation' Sunday Times

Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker

Tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns and down forgotten roads, these two men will travel beyond myth and stereotype, revealing an America few people ever get to see.

Richard Brautigan's cult classic novel reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of his death. Introduced by Neil Gaiman

'When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures.'John Muir was eleven when he and his family left Scotland in 1849 to build a new life on a homestead in the vast wilderness of Wisconsin. Written in simple yet beautiful prose, we see Muir's delight as he discovers and observes the landscape and wildlife around him, as he recalls his childhood and reveals himself as a master of natural description.

Miranda July's bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection - winner of the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' Evelyn WaughNow available in print and eBook as a gorgeous canon

Now available as a stunning Canon'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' ALI SMITH

The Whitbread Prize-winning modern classic. Introduced by Hugh McIlvanney

A dazzling celebration of the natural world and our place in it from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer.

The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year

A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God

A dark and uplifting modern classic of Scottish literature. Introduced by Diarmid Gunn

Bestselling author Michel Faber's debut joins Canongate's Canons series with the dazzling Some Rain Must Fall

One of Leonard Cohen's best loved volumes of poetry; a personal and powerful collection, popular since its original publication over thirty years ago

The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire

The strange and wonderful story of how one colour changed the world, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map

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

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

A mother struggles to protect her children as Bangladesh fights for independence; winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award

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

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

With an introduction by Colm Toibin

The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway

The intensely-erotic feminist cult classic. Introduced by Maggie Nelson

This work argues that it is better to use Christianity as good poetry than as bad science, and although the author sets out to deconstruct its doctrines, "my intention is positive; it is to craft from the Christian past a usable ethic for our own time".

The passionate and accomplished debut collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen

A fictional account of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's mistress and confidante, published on the 350th anniversary of the artist's death

The breathtaking first volume in Rachel Carson's classic and New York Times bestselling trilogy, about the history of the oceans, introduced by Margaret Atwood