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The Canons
The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon.
A spellbinding portrait of a troubled family and wry dissection of middle-class sentiment around legacy and social ambition
A luminous story of love, purpose and regret, and captures the essence of what it means to be a woman at a crossroads
A sharp and merciless dark comedy about marriage, motherhood and the pull of ambition
Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag’s collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century offers a rare glimpse into the minds of two intellectual giants of the twentieth century
Capital
is Rana Dasgupta’s Orwell Prize-shortlisted non-fiction debut: an unsparing, lyrical portrait of class and wealth disparity in Delhi
A slim volume that bursts with insight by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard, illuminating the creative process and the trials of a writer’s life
A manual for investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin,
Words Are My Matter
collects one of our foremost literary intellectual’s best writing on literature
Recognised by five literary awards, Book of the Year for five broadsheets and receiving instant acclaim, this is bestselling author Gavin Francis’s account of a year as base camp doctor in Antarctica
An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – with a new foreword to the 2024 edition
A powerful manifesto for change and argument for hope, compassion and faith in the face of the challenges of the twenty-first century, from award-winning political thinker Ece Temelkuran
The first book from
Sunday Times
bestselling author Gavin Francis, a travelogue of his adventures in the far north, introduced by Colin Thubron
A powerful portrait of a time and culture, of late 70s to early 80s and football hooligan gangs, of working-class lives and men left abandoned by Thatcher’s Britain
A forgotten classic of 1920s mountaineering literature; Dorothy Pilley broke new ground for women in a sport dominated by men with her true account of adventure, endurance and daring
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
,
Keep Moving
and
Good Bones
, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved
Poetry Unbound
podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
The story of Art Pepper
A rousing exploration of the blues and jazz music that formed much of American popular music culture, penned by the iconic Beat writer and critic
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this is a timeless and compassionate novel about what it means to be human
The award-winning and atmospheric crime cult classic from bestselling author Louise Welsh – ‘Unputdownable’
Sunday Times
This modern American classic is an unflinching look at post-war America; introduced by Irvine Welsh and afterword by Kurt Vonnegut
40th anniversary commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic
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’
A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky’s most radical work of fiction. Introduced by DBC Pierre
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