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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Piñol; Cheryl Leah Morgan (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At f ...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.
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 by Richard Brautigan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Canons
In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In 'Araby' a young boy struggles with everyday tasks in the face of a growing infatuation with his neighbour's sister; in 'The Boarding House' a single mother orchestrates a marriag ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Dubliners by James Joyce. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that ha ...Show more
Forever Words - The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Canons Ser.
A treasure-trove of never-before-published poems and lyrics from the legendary Johnny Cash.
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
$26.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Canons Ser.
A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativity This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creatio ...Show more
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Canons Ser.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for e ...Show more
Gold from the Stone - New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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 t ...Show more
Guantanamo Diary: The Fully Restored Text by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems, Larry Siems
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previous censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of sensory deprivation, torture ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Fiction | 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