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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
22.99 NZD
Category: General 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
25.99 NZD
26.99 (3% off)
Category: Travel Writing | 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
Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
34.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Flamingo Ser.
Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time--way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that has gone on to become a classic. It includes a new prefac ...Show more
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
24.99 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
Category: No Category | 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
26.99 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
24.99 NZD
26.00 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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
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