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Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | 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
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray, Dante Alighieri
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Alasdair Gray's remarkable retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time.
Forever Words - The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash; Paul Muldoon (Editor, Introduction by); John Carter Cash (Foreword by)
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Canons Ser.
A treasure-trove of never-before-published poems and lyrics from the legendary Johnny Cash.
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for e ...Show more
Guantanamo Diary: The Fully Restored Text by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems, Larry Siems
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | 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
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Necropolis by Boris Pahor; Michael Biggins (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
A classic of Holocaust literature from the camps' oldest known survivor; introduced by Alan Yentob
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
Against an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns and ...Show more
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
A beautiful book of immersive poetry, based on the much-loved Poetry Unbound podcast downloaded more than 6 million times
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
23.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
Grassic Gibbon's celebrated novel, voted the 'Best Scottish Book of All Time'.