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The Hip Hop MBA
lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism from Rap’s Moguls
2024 || Hardcover || Nels Abbey || Canongate
Hip Hop is rewriting the rules of business; The Hip Hop MBA takes you on a guided tour of just how and what we can all learn from it, by banker-turned-writer Nels Abbey
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This Plague of Souls
2023 || Hardcover || Mike McCormack || Canongate
After the collapse of his trial, Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, only to be greeted by an empty home. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed, except for one mysterious caller.
This Plague of Souls is a story for these fractured times and the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.
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Wolfish
the Stories We Tell about Fear, Ferocity and Freedom
2023 || Paperback || Erica Berry || Canongate
An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf.
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relationships with one another and ourselves: 'What does it...
The Life Impossible
2024 || Paperback || Matt Haig || Canongate
The Life Impossible is a story of wild adventure, deep transformation and gloriously heart-warming characters. It shows how a new outlook can burst into life at any moment and change everything.
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Listen
on Music, Sound and Us
2023 || Hardcover || Michel Faber || Canongate
There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen.
Michel Faber explores two big questions: how do we listen to music and why do we listen to music? He considers a range of factors, which includes age, illness, the notion of ?cool', the dichotomy between ?good' and ?bad' taste and much more.
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The Middle Daughter
2023 || Paperback || Chika Unigwe || Canongate
Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness.
When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is beguiled by an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed ?man of God' who seems to offer all the answers. But instead of building a better future with him, Nani is forced too soon into a challengi...
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MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
Paperback || MATT HAIG || Canongate
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they...
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A Spell of Good Things
2023 || Paperback || Ayobami Adebayo || Canongate
Ayòbámi Adébàyò, the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.
Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future.
Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of ...
Bright I Burn
2024 || Hardcover || Molly Aitken || Canongate
A blazing tale of power, patriarchy and sexuality, based on the true story of the first woman in Ireland to have been condemned as a witch.
In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.
When a young Alice Kyteler sees her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities, she vows that she will not suffer the same fate. When she discovers she has a flair for making money, she soon builds a flourishing trade. But as her wealth and stature grow, so too ...
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Life of Pi
Paperback || Yann Martel || Canongate
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orang...