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The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family. One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Climate | 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
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Lady tells a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives
The Spare Room - UK paperback by Helen Garner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of several prestigious prizes, The Spare Roomis extraordinary writer Helen Garner's intense, moving investigation of the boundaries and limits of a lifelong friendship.As the novel opens, Helen lovingly prepares the spare room in her home for her dear friend Nicola, who is coming to visit for thr ...Show more
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati; Tim Parks (Introduction by); Stuart C. Hood (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trac ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imaginatiomn Creates Culture by Lewis Hyde
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Canons
Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them u ...Show more
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: Canons Ser.
Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggl ...Show more
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$28.00 AUD
Category: 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