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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
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
C. S. Lewis Biography by A. N. Wilson
Category: Biography | Series: Flamingo Ser.
C.S.Lewis was a prolific writer and a man capable of inspiring both devotion and hostility. This book charts the progress of Lewis from Ulster to Oxford where he was a fellow of Magdalen College for the greater part of his adult life. The author describes Lewis' unwilling conversion to Christianity, the ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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
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 Country by Mason Bobbie Ann
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser.
In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed ...Show more
In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
Category: Travel | 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
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Mark Roskill
Category: Classic | Series: Flamingo Ser.
A literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time. Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh the thoughtful, effervescent, and sensitive man is revealed to readers ...Show more
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C G Jung
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Flamingo Ser.
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
Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Category: Science | 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 Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
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
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
Category: POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT | Series: Flamingo Modern Classic Ser.
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.