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John Banville
The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow.
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Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize
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A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner
‘What was freedom, she thought, other than the right to exercise one’s choices?’
Isabel Osmond, a spirited…
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From the Booker Prize-winning John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory.
A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red…
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With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a…
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"One of the very best mysteries of this or any other year." --Globe and Mail "Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format... Superbly rich and sophisticated."…
Neil Murphy
John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays. It asserts that Banville's fiction…
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A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
_NATIONAL BESTSELLER_A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a…
‘This is the book John Banville was born to write’ Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
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The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality.
In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens…
A classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea depicts the end of innocence for a boy and his country. Once…
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain is back, as Quirke and Strafford return with their most troubling case yet.
From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman's sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland…
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the…
The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize-winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that…
David Rieff
Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.
A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.
This critical study of John Banville’s major work considers the manner in which his fiction intersects with a variety of ideas relating to art. It also proposes that Banville’s fiction…
John Kenny
Establishing the intellectual and cultural contexts of the oeuvre and its reception, this book provides readings of John Banville’s Irish themes, his crucial theories of the Imagination, his thematic preoccupation…
Billy Mundow
In this volume of documentary photography by William Mundow, more than 50 black-and-white images of the West of Ireland from the 1960s are mirrored by the works of Irish poets…
Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is a new family living in the drafty old…
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The first interview collection with this esteemed writer. The book includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel…
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Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville’s most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville’s novels…
Eoghan Smith
This study explores the fiction of John Banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contexts. Providing individual and thematic readings of his novels, it examines the complexity…
John Banville (Author)
In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a…
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A chilling mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as…
The acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of serpentine menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. Winner…
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The best novel yet from the Booker Prize and Franz Kafka winnerthe anteroom to the Nobel Prize.
When a young woman threatens to expose a damaging secret from his former life, Axel Vander, an elderly scholar and master liar, is forced to examine his past to uncover…
As he pushes fifty, painter and petty thief Oliver Otway Orme reflects on his life, trying to uncover the answer to how and why things have turned out as they…
Volume Two of the Revolutions Trilogy
Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. Oliver Orme is a painter who has abandoned his art. His days are now haunted by loss: loss of desire; of artistic…
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
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A thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita.
An unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace
This is a collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s career, ‘Long Lankin’ explores the passionate emotions - fear, jealousy, desire -…
