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Ask the Dust by John Fante; Charles Bukowski
28.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Doubts and Love: What is Left of Chri... by Richard Holloway
24.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Canons Ser.
In this passionate and heartfelt book, Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. In doing so he demonstrates the power of the great Christian stories as they apply today, away from their sometimes antiquated settings, providing a blueprint which takes the core teachi ...Show more
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | 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
Category: General 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
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & 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
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
22.99 NZD
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
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
Sex and Rage - Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time by Eve Babitz
22.99 NZD
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
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
22.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see ...Show more
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japane ...Show more