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Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler by Jim Dodge
$33.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons Ser.
When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mind-bending chemicals, where anarchists, alchemists and high-stake gamblers co-exist. It is a place in which magic and murder are ...Show more
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
$19.98 NZD
$23.00 (13% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse. Jesse also meets Madison - Pig's d ...Show more
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Grassic Gibbon's celebrated novel, voted the 'Best Scottish Book of All Time'.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Canons
In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respect ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking fligh ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
'Introducing this release of The Awakening has given me an opportunity to re-experience one of my life's important books . . . I still marvel at Chopin's realism, her impatience with conventional trappings, her arresting honesty' BARBARA KINGSOLVER'Incisive, brilliant and haunting' MAGGIE O'FARRELLOver ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectabi ...Show more
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good
'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .'So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gu ...Show more
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
$22.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | 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 Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
$26.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons
The world is a hard place to be good in ... Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Canons Ser.
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become corner ...Show more