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McGrotty and Ludmilla by Alasdair Gray
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A fantastical comedy from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray.
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
My Father's Notebook by Kader Abdolah; Susan Massotty (Translator)
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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)
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Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
A classic of Holocaust literature from the camps' oldest known survivor; introduced by Alan Yentob
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Canons Ser.
Against an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns and ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Natasha Randall (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic ...Show more
Now and Then by Gil Scott-Heron; Kate Tempest (Introduction by)
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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
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco; Alastair McEwen (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Tilda Swinton (Introduction by)
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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
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
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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
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel.At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times