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John Banville (Author)
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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John Banville
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
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Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain is back, as Quirke and Strafford return with their most troubling case yet.
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Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize
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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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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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…
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…
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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…
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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…
"One of the very best mysteries of this or any other year." --Globe and Mail Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder…
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…
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…
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Neil Murphy
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…
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…
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…
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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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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Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, John Banville
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…
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…
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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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…
‘This is one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’ Seamus Deane
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 darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
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…
A chilling mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner
John Banville,John Banville
The best novel yet from the Booker Prize and Franz Kafka winnerthe anteroom to the Nobel Prize.
A richly rewarding work from one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation.
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…
Volume Two of the Revolutions Trilogy
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…
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
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…
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…
An unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace
Volume One of the Revolutions Trilogy
A captivating, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader.
A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.
