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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daugh ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
$18.99 NZD
Category: Sci-fi/Fantasy | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across th ...Show more
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C G Jung
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that bo ...Show more
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald's wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$20.99 NZD
$28.00 (25% off)
Category: Feminism | Series: Flamingo Modern Classic Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
This work portrays marriage as a legalised form of slavery for women, and attacks the systematic denial and misrepresentation of female sexuality by male-dominated society.
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
$27.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Flamingo Modern Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A classic collection of stories -- all told on the skin of a man -- from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for hi ...Show more
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover in th ...Show more
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Flamingo Ser.
Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" byThe New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay'sThe Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot's deranged ca ...Show more
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