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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$24.95 AUD
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 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in Russia 1913, Frank Reid arrives home from work on a day just like any other to find that his wife has left him. How should he cope? This text is the story of how the family copes with this unexpected event, set against a turbulent political backdrop. Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegan ...Show more
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questio ...Show more
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: good
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power a ...Show more
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
$16.45 AUD
$27.95 (41% off)
Category: Fiction | 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
Turning Point - Science, Society and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra
$27.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Until recently, our view of the physical universe had been formed, for centuries, by the mechanistic thinking of Descartes and Newton. New scientific concepts have overturned this world view, replacing it with a more holistic and ecological one that has afforded us deep insights into the nature of matte ...Show more
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