Publisher: Canongate
The Complete Peanuts Part 2
Posted On: November 2, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
In the second of two extracts from The Complete Peanuts, we feature Hal Hartley’s foreword to the 1965-1966 volume.
Read More...The Complete Peanuts Part 1
Posted On: November 1, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
In the first of two extracts from The Complete Peanuts, we feature Bill Melendez’s foreword to the 1963-1964 volume.
Read More...Anne Lister’s Halifax
Posted On: October 22, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest. Bookhugger presents a second extract from The Country Diaries, edited by Alan Taylor.
Read More...Will Self: What The Hell Are You Doing?
Posted On: October 13, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
The following extract is Will Self’s introduction to What The Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley.
Read More...Evelyn Waugh gets drunk
Posted On: October 6, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
One of the foremost English novelists of his generation, Evelyn Waugh was a dyspeptic wit whose unvarnished self is revealed in his letters and diary. The following entries are published in The Country Diaries, edited by Alan Taylor.
Read More...Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot.
Posted On: September 21, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Travel broadens the mind, right? You’d think so… find out in this extract from Karl Pilkington’s hilarious travel diaries.
Read More...Nicolai Lilin interviewed
Posted On: September 20, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Set in a small and tight-knit community of ‘honest criminals’ in a remote part of Russia, Siberian Education is a tale of an extreme boyhood – exotic, violent and completely unique. Author Nicolai Lilin answers questions put to him by Bookhugger’s readers.
Read More...We Die Alone: an introduction
Posted On: August 18, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
The following is Andy McNab’s introduction to David Howarth’s We Die Alone. During World War Two, Howarth ran a spy ring from which this volume and his previous best-seller, The Shetland Bus, both derive. Mr Howarth, who died in 1991, was the author of two dozen major books of history.
Read More...The Gathering Night: author’s afterword
Posted On: August 10, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
The following is a section from the afterword to Margaret Elphinstone’s The Gathering Night: Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when her brother goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia’s mother follows her visions and goes in search of her lost son.
Read More...Reader reactions to The Crimson Petal and the White
Posted On: July 23, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
Michel Faber explores the reactions of readers to his famous novel set in 1870s London.
Read More...A smart, accessible history of philosophy to inspire readers young and old
Posted On: July 21, 2010Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Download an extract from Luc Ferry’s refreshing take on the history of philosophy and its tumultuous relationship with religion.
Read More...Read an extract from My Friend the Mercenary
Posted On: June 17, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
In a fly-blown bar in West Africa, war reporter James Brabazon found himself discussing military plans to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea with one of Africa’s most notorious mercenaries – his friend Nick du Toit.
Read More...Read an extract from Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Posted On: June 11, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
Fate takes many forms… When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulling into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey – named Beatrice and Virgil – and the epic journey they undertake together.
Read More...Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Posted On: June 2, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Drug smuggler turned author and campaigner for legalisation of cannabis Howard Marks introduces the new edition of Snowblind. the story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed.
Read More...Understanding Africa, with Africa United
Posted On: May 20, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
A superb portrait of the divided continent of Africa, told through one of the few things that unites it: football.
Read More...How to make the fabric of the universe
Posted On: May 17, 2010Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Libby Miller, a character in Scarlett Thomas’s new novel Our Tragic Universe, exclusively reveals a very special knitting pattern…
Read More...Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin
Posted On: May 13, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Interviews, Video
Publisher: Canongate
Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 but has never been recognised. In this video, Lilin tells us more about his experiences in Siberian Education, his memoir of growing up in a society of ‘honest criminals’.
Read More...An interview with Sue Armstrong, author of A Matter of Life and Death
Posted On: May 10, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Sue Armstrong is a science writer and broadcaster living in Edinburgh, who has undertaken a variety of assignments writing reports for the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS. Here she talks about her book exploring the vital work of pathologists, which really is A Matter of Life and Death.
Read More...Read an extract from Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
Posted On: May 6, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of his birth. Back to square one.
Read More...Jarvis Cocker reads a story from David Eagleman’s Sum
Posted On: May 5, 2010Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination – hear Jarvis Cocker read Descent of Species.
Read More...A Matter of Life and Death: the back story
Posted On: April 19, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
Sue Armstrong, author of A Matter of Life and Death, shares with us her reasons for writing her book on pathology.
Read More...An extract from Six Months in Sudan
Posted On: April 12, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, in 2007. The newest Médicins Sans Frontières’ doctor in the field, he arrived with only his training, full of desire to understand this most desperate part of the world. He returned home six months later profoundly affected by the experience.
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