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A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The second in Margaret Drabble's trilogy, following The Radiant Way
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness. In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fair ...Show more
Ask the Dust by John Fante; Charles Bukowski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, ...Show more
Ask the Dust by John Fante; Charles Bukowski (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, ...Show more
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript, carried the ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing | Series: Canons Ser.
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wis ...Show more
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
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Category: Biography | Series: Canons Ser.
Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the Ame ...Show more
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
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Category: Biography | Series: Canons Ser.
The savage, beautiful, and unforgettable memoirs of an extraordinary artist, activist, and iconoclast who lit up the New York art scene in the late twentieth centuryDavid Wojnarowicz's brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence marked by neglect, drugs, prostitution, and abuse to ...Show more
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray, Dante Alighieri
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Alasdair Gray's remarkable retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time.
Doubts and Love: What is Left of Chri... by Richard Holloway
$22.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Canons Ser.
In this passionate and heartfelt book, Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. In doing so he demonstrates the power of the great Christian stories as they apply today, away from their sometimes antiquated settings, providing a blueprint which takes the core teachi ...Show more