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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: General | 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'
Blues People by Leroi Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Canons Ser.
A rousing exploration of the blues and jazz music that formed much of American popular music culture, penned by the iconic Beat writer and critic.
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$19.99 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
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Category: General | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Highland River by Neil M. Gunn; Dairmid Gunn (Introduction by)
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Category: General | Series: Canons Ser.
Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all the way back to its source, Kenn embarks on a journey that will lead him deep into the wilderness of his own heart. Profound and moving, Highland River is a stirring tale of w ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: History | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Tilda Swinton (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Orlando A Biography by Virginia Woolf The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put ...Show more
Pimp: the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the street ...Show more
The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny; Ralph Freedman (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Canons Ser.
Nadolny's masterpiece, The Discovery of Slowness tells the incredible story of Sir John Franklin, a sailor and explorer who battled the frozen Arctic wastes and paved the way for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Ridiculed for his slowness in his youth, Franklin's quiet calm later helps him to bec ...Show more
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
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Category: Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
"It's wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent ... highly recommended."--The Millions After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy's inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coast ...Show more
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Speculative Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and ...Show more
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