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Getting It in the Head by Mike McCormack
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a world where beautiful but deranged children make lethal bombs, talented sculptors spend careers dismembe ...Show more
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to ...Show more
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Highland River by Neil M. Gunn; Dairmid Gunn (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all the way back to its source, Kenn embarks on a journey that will lead him deep into the wilderness of his own heart. Profound and moving, Highland River is a stirring tale of w ...Show more
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski; Howard Sounes (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
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
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon; Richard Price
$21.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide un ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Canons Ser.
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
$15.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | 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
Iced by Ray Shell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A searing work of modern fiction tracing a man's decline into the depths of addiction
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$20.00 AUD
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
$20.00 AUD
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
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
$25.00 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