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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
A foundational text since 1990 and previously translated into nine languages, Free Play is a masterful and joyful meditation on how improvisation can be applied to not just art but the art of living - and in doing so unlock boundless creativity This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creatio ...Show more
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
$27.99 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Canons Ser.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for e ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
$22.99 NZD
$28.00 (17% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski; Howard Sounes (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known star ...Show more
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$28.00 NZD
Category: Politics | 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
$16.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.
L. A. Woman by Eve Babitz
$28.00 NZD
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
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons
From the author of POOR THINGS -- LANARK, 'probably the greatest novel of the century' - The 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 t ...Show more
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
$23.00 NZD
$28.00 (17% off)
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
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
$26.00 NZD
$34.00 (23% off)
Category: Popular Science | Series: Canons Ser.
'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.' Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together previously unpublished work, ess ...Show more