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So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
In a small Pacific Northwest town we meet a young man who has shot dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy: the anguish, regret, despair and bittersweet romance. Typical of Brautigan's singular style, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a beautifully wri ...Show more
Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler by Jim Dodge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mind-bending chemicals, where anarchists, alchemists and high-stake gamblers co-exist. It is a place in which magic and murder are ...Show more
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse. Jesse also meets Madison - Pig's d ...Show more
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Grassic Gibbon's celebrated novel, voted the 'Best Scottish Book of All Time'.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
'Unputdownable' Sunday Times'I was hooked from page one' Guardian When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an under ...Show more
The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny; Ralph Freedman (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Self Care | 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: Self Care | 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 Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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 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 Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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Category: No Category | 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
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment | 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