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Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
Arguably Bukowski's finest novel.
Highland River by Neil M. Gunn; Dairmid Gunn (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Looking back at his own life and education, this book by the giant of African literature is a deeply personal and essential key for unlocking all of Achebe's literature and politics
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon; Richard Price
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide un ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
How to be a Grrrl - By Lucy van Pelt by Charles Schulz
$14.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Canons Ser.
'The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!'Entrepreneur, psychiatrist, fussbudget - Lucy van Pelt is the much-loved crabby heroine of the Peanuts gang. Never one to suffer in silence, in this brand new book she is presented as the role model she has always wanted to be. Pack ...Show more
Iced by Ray Shell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
A searing work of modern fiction tracing a man's decline into the depths of addiction
If the War Goes On ... - Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Canons Ser.
Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the ...Show more
L. A. Woman by Eve Babitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle - one with the promises of youth, the other with the ...Show more
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
From the author of POOR THINGS -- LANARK, 'probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer .... 'Remarkable... A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches' William Boyd Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the i ...Show more
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...Show more