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LEAD A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry
Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh - the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah Fisher
Edinburgh. This city will bleed you dry.
Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman.
Back in the townhouse of Dr James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out.
Canongate Books On Sale: Oct 19/21 Raven's efforts to prove his former adversary's innocence are failing and he 6.38 x 9.45 • 416 pages desperately needs Sarah's help. Putting their feelings for one another aside, 9781786899859 • $29.50 • cl their investigations take them to both extremes of Edinburgh's social divide, Fiction / Crime where they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in theblood.
Author Bio
Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience, whose research for her Master's degree in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which this series, whichbegun with The Way of All Flesh, is based. The Way of all Flesh was longlisted for both the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year.
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The April Dead by Alan Parks
The fourth dark and gripping Harry McCoy thriller from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir
NO ONE WILL FORGET . . .
In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker.
Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there'll be more to follow. The hunt for a missing sailor from the local US naval base leads him to the secretive group behind the bomb, and their disturbing, dominating leader.
On top of that, McCoy thinks he's doing an old friend a favour when he passes on a warning, but instead he's pulled into a vicious gang feud. And in the meantime, there's word another bigger explosion is coming Glasgow's way - so if the city is to survive, it'll take everything McCoy's got Canongate Books On Sale: Sep 7/21 6.38 x 9.45 • 400 pages Author Bio 9781786897190 • $29.50 • cl Alan Parks was born in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow Fiction / Thrillers / Crime where he was awarded a M.A. in Moral Philosophy. He still lives and works in Series: A Harry McCoy Thriller the city. He has spent most of his working life in music. From cover artwork to videos to photo sessions, he created groundbreaking campaigns for a wide range of artists including All Saints, New Order, The Streets, Gnarls Barkley and CeeLo Green. He was also Managing Director of 679 Recordings.
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Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
The third dark and gripping Harry McCoy thriller from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir
'Its plot twists and turns . . . Fascinating' The Times 'Addictive' i
WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE IS INNOCENT?
There's a heatwave in Glasgow and the drugs trade is booming. The whole force is searching for missing thirteen-year-old Alice Kelly. All except Harry McCoy, who has been taken off the case after a run-in with the boss, and is insteadsent alone to investigate the death of rock-star Bobby March, who has just overdosed in the Royal Stuart hotel.
The papers want blood. The force wants results. McCoy has a hunch. But does he have enough time? Canongate Books On Sale: Sep 7/21 5.08 x 7.8 • 384 pages Author Bio 9781786897183 • $17.50 • B-format paperback Alan Parks was born in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow Fiction / Crime where he was awarded a M.A. in Moral Philosophy. He still lives and works in Series: A Harry McCoy Thriller the city. He has spent most of his working life in music. From cover artwork to videos to photo sessions, he created groundbreaking campaigns for a wide range of artists including All Saints, New Order, The Streets, Gnarls Barkley and CeeLo Green. He was also Managing Director of 679 Recordings.
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Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
In the beginning there was Laidlaw . The CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece that launched a genre, from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction
THE FIRST IN THE ORIGINAL LAIDLAW TRILOGY WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER
'If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it' Guardian 'A bloody good read' Val McDermid
When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner demons but driven by a deep compassion for the violent criminals in Glasgow's underworld. But will Laidlaw's unorthodox methods get him to the killer in time, when the victim's father is baying for blood? Canongate Books On Sale: Sep 7/21 Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, 5.08 x 7.8 • 304 pages the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction. 9781838856199 • $17.50 • B-format paperback Fiction / Crime Author Bio Series: Laidlaw Trilogy
WILLIAM McILVANNEY's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.
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The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney
The CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction
THE SECOND IN THE ORIGINAL LAIDLAW TRILOGY WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER
'In a class of his own' Guardian 'Reads like a breathless scalpel through the bloody heart of a great city' Denise Mina
Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks a seam of corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of society.
Canongate Books Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, On Sale: Sep 7/21 the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction. 5.08 x 7.8 • 320 pages 9781838856229 • $17.50 • B-format paperback Author Bio Fiction / Crime Series: Laidlaw Trilogy WILLIAM McILVANNEY's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.
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Strange Loyalties by William McIlvanney
The remarkable conclusion to the Laidlaw series which launched a genre, from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction
THE THIRD IN THE ORIGINAL LAIDLAW TRILOGY 'The Laidlaw books are not just great crime novels, they are important ones' Mark Billingham 'It's doubtful I would be a crime writer without the influence of McIlvanney's Laidlaw' Ian Rankin
When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. Laidlaw begins an emotional quest through Glasgow's underworld, and into the past. He discovers as much about himself as about the brother he has lost, in a search that leads to a shattering climax.
Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, Canongate Books the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction. On Sale: Sep 7/21 5.08 x 7.8 • 384 pages Author Bio 9781838856212 • $17.50 • B-format paperback Fiction / Crime WILLIAM McILVANNEY's first novel, Remedy is None, won the Geoffrey Series: Laidlaw Trilogy Faber Memorial Prize and with Docherty he won the Whitbread Award for Fiction. Laidlaw and The Papers of Tony Veitch both gained Silver Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association. Strange Loyalties, the third in the Detective Laidlaw trilogy, won the Glasgow Herald's People's Prize. McIlvanney died in December 2015.
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The Divinities by Parker Bilal
The first in a compelling London crime series from the author nominated for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year
When two bodies are found brutally murdered at a building site in Battersea, DS Cal Drake is first to the scene. He sees an opportunity: to solve a high- profile case and to repair his reputation after a botched undercover operation almost ended his promising career in the Violent Crimes Unit.
Assigned to work with the forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane, and on the hunt for an elusive killer, Drake's investigations lead down the dark corridors of the past - to the Iraq war and the destruction both he and Crane witnessed there. With a community poised on the brink of violence, Crane and Drake must put their lives on the line to stop the killer before vengeance is unleashed.
Canongate Books Author Bio On Sale: Sep 21/21 Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed 5.08 x 7.8 • 368 pages literary novelist. He is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third 9781838855147 • $17.50 • B-format paperback of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Fiction / Crime Crime Novel of the Year Award.The Divinities, the first in his Crane and Drak Series: A Crane and Drake mystery e London crime series, was published in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands.
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Headlong by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Bill Slider and his team investigate the death of a prominent literary agent in this intriguing contemporary mystery
Does blood run thicker than ink?
When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, seemingly having fallen from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, the team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets.
Every lead seems to result in more questions, and as Slider delves deeper into the publishing world it's up to him to sort fact from fiction.
Author Bio Canongate Books Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born and educated in London and had a variety On Sale: Oct 19/21 of jobs in the commercial world before becoming a full-time writer. She is the 5.08 x 7.8 • 320 pages author of the internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and the historical 9781838853785 • $17.50 • B-format paperback Morland Dynasty series. She lives in London, is married with three children Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General and enjoys music, wine, gardening, horses and the English countryside. Series: A Bill Slider Mystery
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Devil's Fjord by David Hewson
In this psychological thriller two local boys go missing, exposing the darkness at the heart of the Faroe Islands
A remote island. An isolated community. A terrible secret.
If the new District Sheriff, Tristan Haraldsen, thought moving to a remote village on the island of Vagar would be the chance for a peaceful life with his wife Elsebeth, his first few weeks in office swiftly correct him of that notion.
Provoked into taking part in the village's whale hunt against his will, Haraldsen blunders badly, and in the ensuingchaos two local boys go missing. Blaming himself, Haraldsen dives into the investigation and soon learns that the boys are not the first to have gone missing on Vagar.
As Tristan and Elsebeth become increasingly ensnared by the island's past, they realise its wild beauty hides an altogether uglier and sinister truth. Canongate Books On Sale: Oct 19/21 5.08 x 7.79 • 384 pages Author Bio 9781838853761 • $17.50 • B-format paperback David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, The Sunday Times and Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels including his Rome-based Nic Costa series which has been published in fifteen languages and the sixth book, The Garden of Evil, was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award. He has also written three acclaimedadaptations of the Danish TV series, The Killing.
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The River Capture by Mary Costello
The new novel about love, loyalty and nature, shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, from the author of Academy Street
'Exceptional' The Times 'Luminous . . . Unexpected' Guardian
Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Awards
Luke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door, presenting Luke and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.
Author Bio Canongate Books Mary Costello lives in Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory On Sale: Sep 7/21 (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for 5.08 x 7.8 • 272 pages an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish 9781786898043 • $17.50 • B-format paperback Novel of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Fiction / General Book of the Year. It was serialised on BBC Radio 4'sBook at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the EU Prize for Literature and the Prix Litteraire des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande, and has been translated into several languages. The River Capture is her second novel.
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Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
A darkly playful novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.
Soon, long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem . . . and murder.
Author Bio Canongate Books Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning author of novels including Hawksmoor, On Sale: Sep 21/21 Chatterton and The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, biographies of Ezra 5.08 x 7.8 • 192 pages Pound, Blake and Dickens among others, and acclaimed non-fiction 9781786898975 • $17.50 • B-format paperback bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River . He has won Fiction / General the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, theGuardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Rebecca Copeland
A fantastical retelling of the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi from the internationally bestselling author of Out
On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.
But what will happen when she returns to the island?
Based on the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi, The Goddess Chronicle is a fantastical tour de force about ferocious love and bitter revenge.
The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Canongate Books Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip On Sale: Oct 19/21 Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson. 5.08 x 7.8 • 320 pages 9781786899170 • $19.50 • B-format paperback Author Bio Fiction / Thrillers / Crime Series: Canons Natsuo Kirino is a leading figure in Japanese crime fiction. A prolific writer, she is most famous for her 1998 novel Out, which received the Grand Prix for Crime Fiction, Japan's top mystery award, and was a finalist (in translation) for the 2004 Edgar Best Novel Award.
Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where her research and teaching focuses on women, gender and translation studies. She also translated Kirino's 2003 novel Grotesque
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Coming Undone A Memoir by Terri White
A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life coming undone
'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE- CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes
To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream - living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive childhood and rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that wouldland her in a psychiatric ward.
Coming Undone is Terri's story of her unravelling, and her precarious journey back from a life in pieces.
Canongate Books On Sale: Sep 7/21 Author Bio 5.08 x 7.8 • 256 pages Terri White is Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, having previously edited 9781786896810 • $19.50 • B-format paperback some of the most read titles in the UK and US, including Time Out New York Biography / Personal Memoirs and Shortlist, where she was named Men's Magazine Editor of the Year. She has also written for the Guardian and The Pool .
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My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen
'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti
In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs.
Morrison - a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry - came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist Canongate Books music media. On Sale: Sep 7/21 6.1 x 8.58 • 256 pages In My Rock 'n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of 9781786898227 • $32.95 • cl friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two Biography / Personal Memoirs women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.
Author Bio
Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She was born and grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school.
Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for the New Statesman . She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.
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Blood Legacy Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton
One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of slave owners
Selected as a Best Book of 2021 by the Evening Standard
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today.
A group of Caribbean countries is calling on ten European nations to discuss Canongate Books the payment of trillions of dollars for the damage done by transatlantic slavery On Sale: Sep 7/21 and its continuing legacy. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter and other activist 5.67 x 8.66 • 400 pages groups are causing increasing numbers of white people to reflect on how this Integrated b/w images throughout historyof abuse and exploitation has benefited them. 9781786898869 • $32.95 • cl Social Science / Slavery Blood Legacy explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former - himself among them - can begin to make reparations for the past.
Author Bio
Alex Renton is a journalist who has won awards for his work as an investigator, war correspondent and food policy writer. He has also worked for Oxfam, in East Asia, Haiti and on the Iraq war. Most recently he has been a columnist on the Times and Scotland correspondent for Newsweek magazine. He lives in Edinburgh with his family.@axrenton alexrenton.com
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The Art of Rest How to Find Respite in the Modern Age by Claudia Hammond
Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science
Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on: 'The Rest Test', the largest global survey into restever undertaken, completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. The survey revealed how people get rest and how it is directly linked to your sense of wellbeing.
Canongate Books Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, On Sale: Oct 5/21 Hammond explains why rest matters, examines the science behind the results 5.08 x 7.8 • 304 pages to establish what really works and offers a roadmap for a new, more restful 9781786892829 • $19.50 • B-format paperback and balanced life. Psychology / General Author Bio
Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and psychology lecturer. She is the voice of psychology on BBC Radio 4, where she is the presenter of All in the Mind and Mind Changers . She is the author of three books, Emotional Rollercoaster, Time Warped, winner of the popular science category of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2013, andmost recently Mind Over Money . She is also a part-time member of faculty at Boston University in London. Hammond has been awarded the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement and Media Award, Mind's Making a Difference Award, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology's Media Achievement Award and the Public Understanding of Neuroscience Award from the British Neuroscience Association.
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Antlers of Water Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by contributions by Jacqueline Bain and Anne Campbell, edited by Kathleen Jamie
The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning author of Findings
'Luminous' The Times 'Beautiful' Caught by the River
Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography.
Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda Thomson Canongate Books and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our relationship with On Sale: Oct 5/21 the more-than-human world, in writing which is by turns celebratory, radical 5.08 x 7.8 • 304 pages and political. 9781786899811 • $21.50 • B-format paperback Literary Collections / Essays Author Bio
Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning Scottish poet and essayist, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. Her writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, as shown in her acclaimed essay collections Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing . Her award-winning poetry collections include The Tree House and The Bonniest Companie . In2018, Jamie was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She lives in Scotland.
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Stories We Tell Ourselves Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
A thought-provoking and playful examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from, and the stories we tell to get through thismuddling experience of life.
Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, Stories We Tell Ourselves is a personal reckoning with life's mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.
Canongate Books On Sale: Oct 5/21 Author Bio 5.08 x 7.8 • 272 pages 9781786899965 • $19.50 • B-format paperback Richard Holloway was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish History / Social History Episcopal Church. A former Gresham Professor of Divinity and Chairman of the Joint Board of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His books include On Forgiveness, Looking in the Distance, Godless Morality, Doubts and Loves, Between the Monster and the Saint and Leaving Alexandria, which won the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013 and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013. Richard Holloway has written for many newspapers in Britain, including The Times, Guardian, Observer, Herald and the Scotsman . He has also presented many series for BBC television and radio.
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The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins
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
In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to holiday photos, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and history, protest and propaganda, and the refusal to look, this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see.
A history of the human gaze... Illuminating... Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology... Indispensable as a reference bookWide-ranging, deep-seeing and cleverA wide-ranging history of looking, you will gaze at it in wonder
Canongate Books Author Bio On Sale: Nov 2/21 7.01 x 9.02 • 432 pages Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish author and filmmaker. His books include full colour Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere. and The Story of Film . His films - such 9781782119135 • $37.50 • pb as I am Belfast, The First Movie, Atomic and The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism have won a Peabody Award, the Prix Italia and the Stanley Kubrick Award, and have been shown in MoMA in New York, at the Cannes film festival, and around the world. He is Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Glasgow. He lives in Edinburgh. @markcousinsfilm
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Letters of Note Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher, compiled by Shaun Usher
An updated edition of this compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher.
From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Canongate Books Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which On Sale: Oct 26/21 captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of 7.36 x 9.25 • 384 pages our lives. 9781838853174 • $48.95 • cl History / Social History Author Bio
Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www. lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into the bestselling books Letters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons.
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Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs www. lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into the bestselling books Letters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of Note, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons.
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