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A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
L. A. Woman by Eve Babitz
$23.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | 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 This collection brings together previously unpublished work, ess ...Show more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: General fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime & thriller | 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 End of Mr Y. by Scarlett Thomas
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The bestselling, critically acclaimed novel of cursed books, quantum physics and the power of love. 'Ingenious and original' - Philip Pullman If you knew a book was cursed, would you still read it? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes ...Show more
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$30.00 NZD
Category: Health & wellbeing | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | 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
$23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love.
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & 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
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Bela Shayevich (Translator); Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Science fiction & fantasy | Series: Canons Ser.
The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-33 ...Show more
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