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Beneath The Underdog by Charles Mingus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Canons Ser.
Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest autobiography ever written by a jazz musician. It tells ...Show more
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon; Richard Price
$10.99 AUD
$21.99 (50% off)
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide un ...Show more
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti; Jonathan Hunt (Translator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
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Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...Show more
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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.
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Tilda Swinton (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime 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
Redeployment by Phil Klay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning story collection which takes readers to the frontline of the Iraq wars. 'A must read' - Guardian
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
$19.99 AUD
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
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