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Balthasar and Blimunda by Josè Saramago
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Panther Ser.
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
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | 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
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther Ser.
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
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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.
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
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther S.
The story of a murder is framed by the story of a brief friendship between two young boys. One, the narrator, is coping with the recent death of his mother; the other, a farm boy, witnesses his parents and a friend in scenes he neither understands nor wishes to. The narrative goes into his past and expl ...Show more
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Panther Ser.
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with a ...Show more
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Panther Ser.
The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber mai ...Show more
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$30.00 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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