Browse by category
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser.
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser.
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
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
A funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target fo ...Show more
In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Flamingo Ser.
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
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
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 Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
$22.99 AUD
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 Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
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 Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Flamingo Modern Classic Ser.
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 Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
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
1 - 9 of 9