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Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Tilda Swinton (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Orlando A Biography by Virginia Woolf The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put ...Show more
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
Sex and Rage - Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time by Eve Babitz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Bellatrist Book Club Pick for July 2017 The Paris Review Staff Pick 1 of 12 Great New Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer (The Huffington Post) 1 of 9 Books to Read This Summer (W and Elle) 1 of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now (O Magazine) 1 of 6 Smarter--But Not Quite Guilt-Free ...Show more
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan; Jarvis Cocker
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Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
Tells the story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town.
Spark's Satire - Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson by Muriel Spark
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$24.99 (75% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, thes ...Show more
St Kilda - Island on the Edge of the World by Charles MacLean
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Canons Ser.
For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism. In 1930, the few remaini ...Show more
Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler by Jim Dodge
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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
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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
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectabi ...Show more
The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny; Ralph Freedman (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | 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