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Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Piñol; Cheryl Leah Morgan (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Canons Ser.
Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At f ...Show more
Guantanamo Diary: The Fully Restored Text by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems, Larry Siems
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse | Series: Canons Ser.
The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previous censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of sensory deprivation, torture ...Show more
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon; Richard Price
$21.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | 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
How to be a Grrrl - By Lucy van Pelt by Charles Schulz
$14.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Canons Ser.
'The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!'Entrepreneur, psychiatrist, fussbudget - Lucy van Pelt is the much-loved crabby heroine of the Peanuts gang. Never one to suffer in silence, in this brand new book she is presented as the role model she has always wanted to be. Pack ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
$22.99 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
Mauve by Simon Garfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse | Series: Canons Ser.
1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, brid ...Show more
Pimp: the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | 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
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan; Jarvis Cocker
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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.
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more
There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man ste ...Show more
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