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The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 AUD
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 Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time wh ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 AUD
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.
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
$28.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Canons Ser.
The Raw Shark Texts, called "clever, playful . . . sharp and clear" by the Los Angeles Times and "a horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up" by the New York Times Magazine, is a novel unlike any other. Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. Instructed by a mysterious ...Show more
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to wha ...Show more
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Lady tells a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
A memoir of childhood and a celebration of the natural world, from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati; Tim Parks (Introduction by); Stuart C. Hood (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trac ...Show more
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggl ...Show more
Wait until Spring, Bandini by John Fante; Dan Fante (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh. When his father seemingly abandons his family, Arturo is left to pick up the pieces, even as turmoil rages within him.With its evocative account of grinding poverty, t ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more