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Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
$22.99 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
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Høeg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime 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
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
$11.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$19.99 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
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