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Kevin Sampson
Awaydays

Canongate Canons

I am the product of a blank generation. I live for kicks. I live for me.Birkenhead, 1979. The Pack, a violent mob of Stanley-knife-wielding football hooligans, follow their team across the Northern wastel…

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Charles Mingus
Beneath The Underdog

Canongate Canons

The memoir of 'angry man of jazz' Charles Mingus, taking in the years studying under Armstrong, Ellington and Parker and the excesses that followed Mingus's emergence in his own right.

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Dorothy Pilley
Climbing Days

Canongate Canons

When Dorothy Pilley first began climbing in the 1910s, female mountaineers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on …

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Gavin Francis
Empire Antarctica

Canongate Canons

WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Prize, RSL Ondaatje Prize, Banff Adventure Travel Prize and Saltire Book of the Year Award Book of the Year for the Financ…

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Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play

Canongate Canons

This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhinder…

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Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye

Canongate Canons

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. At the forefront of American counter-culture, his B…

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Chinua Achebe
Home And Exile

Canongate Canons

Looking back at his own life and education, this book by the giant of African literature is a deeply personal and essential key for unlocking Achebe's literature and politics

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David Eagleman
Incognito

Canongate Canons

David Eagleman, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific res…

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Gavin Francis
Island Dreams

Canongate Canons

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams , Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and i…

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Yann Martel
Life Of Pi

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Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After studying philosophy at university, he travelled and worked at odd jobs before turning to writing. In addition to the Man Booker Prize-winni…

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Eve Babitz
Sex & Rage

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Eve Babitz was born and grew up in Hollywood. She began to write in 1972 after designing album covers for such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and Lord Buckley. Her articles and …

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Death of Bunny Munro

Canongate Canons

Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. The lead singer of The Birthday Party, The Bad Se…

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Tan Twan Eng
The Garden of Evening Mists

Canongate Canons

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Li…

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Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad

Canongate Canons

NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMAN Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I'll spin my own thread.Penelope. Immortalised in lege…

lieferbar ab 15.11.2025.

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Nick Cave
The Sick Bag Song

Canongate Canons

The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments - the people, the books and the music -…

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John Berger,
The Underground Sea

Canongate Canons

A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating both his acclaimed writing and deep-rooted politics

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Gavin Francis
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe

Canongate Canons

Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to t…

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Words Are My Matter

Canongate Canons

'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams' DAVID MITCHELL 'A literary icon' STEPHEN KING Hard times are coming, when we'll be want…

lieferbar ab 6.11.2025.

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