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Mauve by Simon Garfield
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, brid ...Show more
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
$28.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Canons
In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's lizards and mountain lions, tall trees and ...Show more
Necropolis by Boris Pahor; Michael Biggins (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
A classic of Holocaust literature from the camps' oldest known survivor; introduced by Alan Yentob
Now and Then by Gil Scott-Heron; Kate Tempest (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter's lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed 'bluesologist' triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm and urgency which have distinguished Gil Scott-Heron's career. This collection of poems carries the reader from the global topics of poli ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
Orlando is destined to live for four hundred years ...During the Elizabethan era, the young courtier Orlando becomes a lover to the aging Queen and embarks on an intense affair with the beautiful Russian Princess Sasha. Yet while Orlando can fulfil most of his desires, he never quite seems to fit in. T ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Tilda Swinton (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Orlando A Biography by Virginia Woolf The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The Canons | Reading Level: very good
Dyer was a talented young writer and determined to write a study of D.H.Lawrence. But when he sat down to write the book, he found himself distracted by ...everything! Welcome to the world of Dyer! Gripped by indecision at every turn, he agonises over where to settle down to write, whether or not he sho ...Show more
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Pimp: the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons Ser.
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the street ...Show more
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 by Richard Brautigan; Gordon Legge (Introduction by); Sarah Hall
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons Ser.
Contains no fewer than 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties.
Sex and Rage - Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time by Eve Babitz
$23.00 NZD
$28.00 (17% off)
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
Snowblind by Robert Sabbag
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
Zachary Swan: world-class smuggler of the finest cocaine, wicked genius, first-class fool. In his brief and brilliant career as a founding father of the trade, Swan serves the world's most elegant clientele by the most inelegant means, always staying just one step ahead.Robert Sabbag's rip-roaring moder ...Show more