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Balthasar and Blimunda by Josè Saramago
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an ...Show more
Barcelona by Hughes Robert
$44.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Panther Ser.
Focusing on the architectural foundations of this extraordinary city, Robert Hughes' account of Barcelona's growth in relation to the region of Catalunya also features political, economic and military drama.
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work publishe ...Show more
Fish Can Sing by Laxness, Halldor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Panther S.
Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for ...Show more
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Høeg
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvill Panther Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, foll ...Show more
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther S.
A novel about two sixteen year old boys who are classmates at the same exclusive school. Hans is a Jewish middle-class intellectual, Konradin a rich gentile aristocrat. They form an intense friendship. A year later it is over. Nothing remarkable in that - except that this is the 1930s and we are in Germ ...Show more
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther Ser.
This book is a retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship.
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvill Panther S. | Reading Level: very good
At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. This book memorialises the details of a vanishing world while retaining its melancholic and ironic sense of time passing and the ...Show more
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
$12.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Panther S.
Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother, Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to James Morison, his wife is the foundation on which his family rests and life withou ...Show more
Time Will Darken it by William Maxwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther Ser.
The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the perfectly-drawn background of small-town Illinois at the turn of the 20th century, Maxwell once again uncovers ...Show more
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