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Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Tilda Swinton (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Pimp: the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons Ser.
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the street ...Show more
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 by Richard Brautigan; Gordon Legge (Introduction by); Sarah Hall
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons Ser.
Contains no fewer than 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties.
Sex and Rage - Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time by Eve Babitz
$23.00 NZD
$28.00 (17% off)
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
Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler by Jim Dodge
$33.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
$19.98 NZD
$23.00 (13% off)
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
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Grassic Gibbon's celebrated novel, voted the 'Best Scottish Book of All Time'.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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 Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
$22.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | 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 Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Canons Ser.
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become corner ...Show more