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John Banville
A captivating, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader.
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The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady-in this masterful novel of betrayal…
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For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. This book provides an evocation of childhood and memory–that ‘bright abyss’ in which ‘time’s alchemy works’–and an…
A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.
Volume Two of the Revolutions Trilogy
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Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a…
When Quirke travels to the coast of San Sebastian, Spain for some relaxation, he sees a woman who he believes had been murdered by her brother several years prior.
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Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast
Don’t disturb the dead…
On the idyllic coast of San…
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–for love, art, power and God–set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political…
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
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Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child–a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without…
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
Volume One of the Revolutions Trilogy
‘This is the book John Banville was born to write’ Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated…
Oliver Otway Orme, a painter and a petty thief, has finally been caught. Fearing the consequences, Olly flees his life both figuratively and literally and sets out on a quest…
In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, Banville gives readers a dazzling work that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals.
The incomparable Booker Prize winner's next great crime novel--the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St…
In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. A…
Elke D'hoker
Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville offers detailed and original readings of the work of the Irish author John Banville, one of the foremost figures in…
Hedda Friberg-Harnesk
This study is the first to apply aspects of Jean Baudrillard’s thinking on simulation to John Banville’s work by tracing and analyzing instances of simulation in seven novels and two…
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M. O'Connell
In reading Banville’s novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville’s Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently disparate thematic strands - missing twins, shame, false identities - and presents…
Elizabeth Bowen
Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, in 1980 and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1981…
John Updike
Roger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings…
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John Lanchester
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
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Yuri Leving
A unique anthology devoted to a single story-Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.
A unique anthology devoted to a single story- Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.
The book of evidence: Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the reader an…
John Banville,Edna O'Brien,Edna O'Brien
Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2013.
Kingsley Amis
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life- to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are…
A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: ‘the supreme genius of her time’, writes John Banville in his introduction;
Takes us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for…
John Banville, Benjamin Black
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville's Marlowe--originally published as The Black-Eyed Blonde under the pen name Benjamin Black--the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam…
Ross Macdonald
When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer’s office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As…
Mihail Sebastian
Stefan Valeriu introduces us to the wife of a plantation owner, a mysterious older woman, a jaded tomboy, an unhappy mistress, a factory worker, a cabaret singer. From his amorous…
J.G. Farrell
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer returns from the Great War to claim his fiance, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough, Ireland. She is strangely altered, however, along with…
Richard Stark
Parker travels to Nebraska to help out a geriatric safecracker who knows too many of his criminal secrets. By the time he arrives, the safecracker is dead and Parker’s skeletons…
