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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
$23.00 NZD
$28.00 (17% off)
Category: Fiction | 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 Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$24.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design | 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 Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
$22.52 NZD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japan ...Show more
The Last Holiday : A Memoir by GIL. SCOTT-HERON
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Category: Not a Book | Series: Canons
Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. In this, his heartfelt, beautifully written and posthumously published memoir, we are given bright insigh ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$32.99 NZD
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$28.99 NZD
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: 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: 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
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$37.00 (37% off)
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
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family. One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women.