Browse by category
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway ...Show more
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The Canons
'Sounding like one instrument, a wild whirling bagpipe, the Stones chugged to a halt. But the crowd didn't stop, we could see Hells Angels spinning like madmen, swinging at people. By stage right a tall white boy with a black cloud of electric hair was dancing, shaking, infuriating the Angels by having ...Show more
The Weatherhouse by Nan Shepherd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new unders ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imaginatiomn Creates Culture by Lewis Hyde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Canons
Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them u ...Show more
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, Billy Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | 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
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Michel Faber's debut novel is an outstanding piece of fiction that will stay with you long after you have tu ...Show more
Wait until Spring, Bandini by John Fante; Dan Fante (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh. When his father seemingly abandons his family, Arturo is left to pick up the pieces, even as turmoil rages within him.With its evocative account of grinding poverty, t ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Bela Shayevich (Translator); Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Canons Ser.
The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-33 ...Show more