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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
19.99 AUD
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 Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family. One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations ...Show more
The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time wh ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to wha ...Show more
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Lady tells a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
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Category: Biography | Series: Canons Ser.
A memoir of childhood and a celebration of the natural world, from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation
Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea and the delicately balanced, fragile struggl ...Show more
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . .Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal q ...Show more