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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
$17.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Canons
'Introducing this release of The Awakening has given me an opportunity to re-experience one of my life's important books . . . I still marvel at Chopin's realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty' BARBARA KINGSOLVER'Incisive, brilliant and haunting' MAGGIE O'FARRELLOver ...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 Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
The Last Holiday : A Memoir by GIL. SCOTT-HERON
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir | Series: Canons
Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. In this, his heartfelt, beautifully written and posthumously published memoir, we are given bright insigh ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
$22.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
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
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, Billy Collins
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Canons | Reading Level: very good
Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with ma ...Show more
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
$21.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons | Reading Level: near fine
Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his ...Show more