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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see ...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 Hawkline Monster : A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan
$19.98 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
Magic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster. The monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. Richard Brautigan takes the reader on a heroic, magical adventure through East ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more
The Man With the Golden Arm by Welsh, Irvine
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic Malcolm Cowle ...Show more
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Five thousand years after leaving the Cretan Labyrinth, the Minotaur - or M as he is known to his colleagues - is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping his horns down, trying in vain to put his past behind him. He leads an ordered lifestyle in a shabby trailer park where he tinkers w ...Show more
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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 Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to wha ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Canons Ser.
Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggl ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . .Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal q ...Show more