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The Confidence Game

The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time

2024 || Paperback || Maria Konnikova || Canongate Books

An investigation into the minds, motives and methods of con artists by a New York Times bestselling psychologist

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Dancing With Strangers

The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788

2024 || Paperback || Inga Clendinnen || Canongate Books

In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours;

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Notes From Underground

2020 || Paperback || Fyodor Dostoyevsky || Canongate Books

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too .

. .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society.

The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.

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We Are Electric

The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome

2024 || Paperback || Sally Adee || Canongate Books

Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome

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Wolfish

The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom

2024 || Paperback || Erica Berry || Canongate Books

An original and probing debut work of non-fiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf

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Amateur

A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity

2024 || Paperback || Thomas Page McBee || Canongate Books

An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

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Feeding the Machine

the Hidden Human Labour Powering AI

2024 || Paperback || James Muldoon e.a. || Canongate Books

The first book to tell the stories of the army of underpaid and exploited workers powering artificial intelligence, Feeding the Machine tells the story of a global technology through the eyes of the people who produce it.

Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often ap...

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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

2024 || Paperback || Mark Hodkinson || Canongate Books

This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens

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Between Britain

Walking the History of England and Scotland

2024 || Hardcover || Alistair Moffat || Canongate Books

A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award-winning Scottish writer, meditating on the conflict and union of their relationship through history and in the future

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Drive

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

2018 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Canongate Books

A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H.

Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new...