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Sex and Rage - Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time by Eve Babitz
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Bellatrist Book Club Pick for July 2017 The Paris Review Staff Pick 1 of 12 Great New Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer (The Huffington Post) 1 of 9 Books to Read This Summer (W and Elle) 1 of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now (O Magazine) 1 of 6 Smarter--But Not Quite Guilt-Free ...Show more
Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura; David Mitchell (Introduction by); Mark Ealey (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Introduced by David MitchellIn a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to distil salt, and about all the mysteries of the v ...Show more
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse. Jesse also meets Madison - Pig's d ...Show more
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon, Edward Burns
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Category: True Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
A devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of The Wire. 'Mind-blowing . . . less a book, more a way of life' - The Times
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
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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 Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny; Ralph Freedman (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Canons Ser.
Nadolny's masterpiece, The Discovery of Slowness tells the incredible story of Sir John Franklin, a sailor and explorer who battled the frozen Arctic wastes and paved the way for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Ridiculed for his slowness in his youth, Franklin's quiet calm later helps him to bec ...Show more
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
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Category: z | Series: Canons Ser.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
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Category: Science & Nature | 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 Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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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
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
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Category: No Category | Series: Canons
Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more