Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Keywords: creates, culture, imagination, disruptive, makes, world, trickster
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-09-04
List price: $13.06
ISBN-10: 1847672256
ISBN-13: 9781847672254

"Art is a lie that tells the truth." - Pablo Picasso. Picasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit. Playful, mischievous, subversive, and amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our world - with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt - was trickster’s creation, and the work is not yet finished. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, "Trickster Makes This World" encourages you to think and see afresh.

Author: Niccolo Ammaniti
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Keywords: crossroads
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-01-08
List price: $16.56
ISBN-10: 1847670377
ISBN-13: 9781847670373

Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect, and when his drink-sozzled father and two reprobate friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life. But as a tremendous storm brews that night, the perfect crime will have shocking consequences for all involved. And Cristiano must put childhood behind him once and for all.

Author: Robin Jenkins
Publisher: Canongate Books
Keywords: angus, poor
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2000-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1841950025
ISBN-13: 9781841950020

This text centres round a struggling painter, Angus McAllister, who has returned to the island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. His privacy is invaded by Janet, who has decided that an affair with an artist is be the simplest way to incense her husband.

Author: Martin C. Strong
Publisher: Canongate Books
Keywords: discography, indie
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2003-10
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1841953350
ISBN-13: 9781841953359

In The Great Indie Discography, Martin C. Strong has chronicled the careers of musicians who have positioned themselves outside the mainstream. Over five decades, the musicians included have followed their own creative impulses rather than commercial success. In the process, they have often forged new musical styles, influencing future artists and birthing whole movements. Organized alphabetically, each entry includes complete discographies, band histories, catalog numbers, chart listings, and recommended listening. This new edition brings each existing entry completely up-to-date and includes

Author: Michel Faber
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Keywords: twins, fahrenheit
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2006-07-13
List price: $12.11
ISBN-10: 1841957771
ISBN-13: 9781841957777

Deft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber’s new collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, "Some Rain Must Fall". It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain’s most daring and original authors. Acclaimed for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber is also celebrated for his mastery of contrasting styles. From achingly sad lost lives, through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness, to biblical innocence and savagery, Faber’s characters are redeemed, abandoned, beloved and laid bare.

Author: Dan Fante
Publisher: Canongate Books
Keywords: buildings, spitting
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-08
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1841951900
ISBN-13: 9781841951904

Bruno Dante -- aspiring playwright, part-time depressive, and full-time drunk -- has hitchhiked cross-country, escaping the sunshine, have-a-nice-day culture of L.A. for the more cynical climate of New York. It seems to be his kind of town. But he’s Bruno Dante, and things are always bound to go wrong. He finds himself in the rut of deadbeat temping jobs, but they don’t last. Dante won’t play office politics or kiss ass. Longer stints as the night manager of a run-down hotel, a window cleaner, and, finally, a cabbie are punctuated by a number of meaningless affairs, drinking

Author: Kate Grenville
Publisher: Canongate Books
Keywords: river, secret, searching
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2007-01
List price: $13.70
ISBN-10: 1847670024
ISBN-13: 9781847670021

Kate Grenville’s "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. "Searching for the Secret River" tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful book. It is in itself an amazing story, beginning with Grenville’s great-great-great grandfather. Grenville starts to investigate her ancestor, hoping to understand his life. She pu