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Ask the Dust by John Fante; Charles Bukowski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about huma ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
$22.99 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
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
'I was hundreds of miles from landfall, if not over a thousand miles. I couldn't swim such a distance, even with a lifebuoy. What would I eat? What would I drink? How would I keep the sharks away?' After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. T ...Show more
McGrotty and Ludmilla by Alasdair Gray
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
A fantastical comedy from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray.
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's lizards and mountain lions, tall trees and ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too ...In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet ...Show more
On Forgiveness by Richard Holloway
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: very good
"Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject". (Philip Pullman). In this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of forgiveness. One of the most important books on this essential topic, On Forgiveness draws on the great philos ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons | Reading Level: very good
Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H.Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by ...everything! Welcome to the world of Dyer! Gripped by indecision at every turn, he agonises over where to settle down to write, whether or not he sho ...Show more
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan; Jarvis Cocker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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.
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good
'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .'So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gu ...Show more