Canons
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Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World
$18.95 Add to cartNow is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.
In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh po- Series: Canons
- Author: Temelkuran, Ece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1837263043
- Language: English
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The Penelopiad
$30.00 Add to cart20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
AND AN AFTERWORD BY PHILIP PULLMAN
Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I’ll spin my o… [more below]
- Series: Canons
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1837260923
- Language: English
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A Short History of Myth
$18.00 Add to cartAs long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that
- Series: Canons
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 178211890X
- Language: English
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How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism
$18.95 Read moreAn urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – with a
- Series: Canons
- Author: Temelkuran, Ece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1837263078
- Language: English
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The Secret River
$18.00 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal
WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE- Series: Canons
- Author: Grenville, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 178211887X
- Language: English
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The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
$24.95 Read more“His art was of an encyclopedic nature, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles, and the general achievements of his own and earlier generations and leading to a new perspective.”
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0486245322
- Language: English
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Dante’s Divine Trilogy
$22.00 Read moreIn this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray – in his last work – offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this compl… [more below]
- Series: Canons
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1786897024
- Language: English
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
$17.00 Read moreA man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he’s splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art schoo
- Series: Canons
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1838852735
- Language: English
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The Raw Shark Texts
$19.00 Read moreFirst things first, stay calm.
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he- Series: Canons
- Author: Hall, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1838851801
- Language: English
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
$16.00 Read more‘Probably the greatest novel of the century‘ Observer
‘Remarkable . . . A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches’ WILLIAM BOYD
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disi
- Series: Canons #01
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1782117148
- Language: English
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The Goddess Chronicle
$16.00 Read moreOn an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.
But what will happen- Series: Canons
- Author: Kirino, Natsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1786899175
- Language: English
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
$16.00 Add to cartOver 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 pla
- Series: Canons #71
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1786891581
- Language: English
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Girl Meets Boy
$18.00 Add to cartGirl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?
Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind- Series: Canons
- Author: Smith, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1786892472
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$24.00 Read moreNan 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, po
- Series: Canons #6
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1786897350
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$17.00 Read moreIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shoc
- Series: Canons #6
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 0857861832
- Language: English
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The Penelopiad
$18.00 Read moreA fresh take on what follows Homer’s The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the g
- Series: Canons
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1786892480
- Language: English
