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The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons
Frankie Machine, a veteran of the Second World War, returns to Chicago's Northwest side with a morphine habit. Nicknamed the 'kid with the golden arm', Frankie is an aspiring drummer by day and an illicit card-dealer by night. In Molly, an old flame, he sees the chance for redemption, for hard work and ...Show more
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: The Canons
'Sounding like one instrument, a wild whirling bagpipe, the Stones chugged to a halt. But the crowd didn't stop, we could see Hells Angels spinning like madmen, swinging at people. By stage right a tall white boy with a black cloud of electric hair was dancing, shaking, infuriating the Angels by having ...Show more
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
The first short story collection from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray, sublimely decorated throughout.
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: near fine
Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his ...Show more