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Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript, carried the ...Show more
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West; Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
A travel literature classic. Introduced by Geoff Dyer: 'As a book about Yugoslavia it's a kind of metaphysical Lonely Planet that never requires updating'
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his mu ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Dubliners by James Joyce. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that ha ...Show more
Forever Words - The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
A treasure-trove of never-before-published poems and lyrics from the legendary Johnny Cash.
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti; Jonathan Hunt (Translator)
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Category: Children's | Series: Canons Ser.
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Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more
Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga; Ted Goossen (Translator)
$22.99 NZD
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
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.
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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 Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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