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A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The second in Margaret Drabble's trilogy, following The Radiant Way
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness. In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fair ...Show more
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$19.99 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.
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
$19.99 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
My Father's Notebook by Kader Abdolah; Susan Massotty (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A father-son tale set amid the tumultous history of twentieth-century Iran, written by a masterful Iranian novelist in exile.
Necropolis by Boris Pahor; Michael Biggins (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Canons Ser.
A classic of Holocaust literature from the camps' oldest known survivor; introduced by Alan Yentob
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by a Tuama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
Spark's Satire - Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson by Muriel Spark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, thes ...Show more