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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 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
$19.99 AUD
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
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary 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: Sci-Fi, Speculative & 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