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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
Pimp: the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga; Ted Goossen (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese 'I novel' tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga's novella is a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reunion, to the uni ...Show more
Rembrandt's Whore by Sylvie Matton; Tamsin Black (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to become a servant in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, filling the void in his life resulting from the death of his wife and two of their children. But Hendrickje is ...Show more
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 by Richard Brautigan; Gordon Legge (Introduction by); Sarah Hall
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura; David Mitchell (Introduction by); Mark Ealey (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Introduced by David MitchellIn a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to distil salt, and about all the mysteries of the v ...Show more
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan; Jarvis Cocker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Tells the story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town.
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
Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler by Jim Dodge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Straight Life: the Story of Art Pepper by Art Pepper; Gary Giddins (Introduction by); Laurie Pepper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Canons Ser.
Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his wife Laurie, is an explosive work chronicling his work amidst a life dealing with alcoholism, heroin addiction, armed robberies and imprisonment. The resul ...Show more
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
$24.99 AUD
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