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A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
$25.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
The second in Margaret Drabble's trilogy, following The Radiant Way
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Canons Ser.
There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript, carried the ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wis ...Show more
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray, Dante Alighieri
$39.99 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Alasdair Gray's remarkable retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time.
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy & Ideas | 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
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | 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.
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Nature & Animals | 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 This collection brings together previously unpublished work, ess ...Show more
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | 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 Millstone by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties.
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love.
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
"It's wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent ... highly recommended."--The Millions After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy's inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coast ...Show more