Search results for John Banville
Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader
$40.00 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan
A comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living writer, John Banville. It includes selections that are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's Ancient Light ; each piece standing alone, short... Buy or find out more→
Ancient Light
$21.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
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 rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure... Buy or find out more→
Ancient Light
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother. Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland. And with... Buy or find out more→
John Banville
$65.75 – Paperback / Irish Academic Press Ltd
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 with morality... Buy or find out more→
The Sea (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition)
$22.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
The brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of Shroud and The Book of Evidence, John Banville is, quite simply, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language today. Buy or find out more→
Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People
$19.95 – Hardback / National Portrait Gallery Publications
Fictional character sketches by John Banville, Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope and Minette Walters. To complement recent research into the identities of... Buy or find out more→
The Untouchable
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Examines the lives of the Cambridge spies, and in particular Anthony Blunt. The story is told by Blunt, in the form of a journal which starts on the first day of the new life . The author uses the secret life as a way to... Buy or find out more→
Doctor Copernicus
$18.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose ideas and writings shattered the medieval view of the universe. Kepler ,... Buy or find out more→
The Infinities
$22.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
An exploration of the terrifying, wonderful, immutable plight of being human. Buy or find out more→
The Newton Letter
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
A historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However, as the summer wears on, he becomes obsessed by his writing. By the author... Buy or find out more→
Book Of Evidence
$21.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize. Buy or find out more→
Best European Fiction
$23.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banvillejoins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon s series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of... Buy or find out more→
The Drowning Pool
$22.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. Private investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A.... Buy or find out more→
A Book of Irish Verse
$24.95 – Paperback / Taylor & Francis Ltd
Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. Buy or find out more→
Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, Signs and Symbols
$40.00 – Paperback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
A unique anthology devoted to a single story- Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories. Buy or find out more→
Troubles: Winner of the 2010 Lost Man Booker Prize for Fiction
$12.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc
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 the hotel, which is in spectacular decline.... Buy or find out more→
Ancient Light
$45.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
A story of obsessive young love and the power of grief, this novel is written by a Booker Prize winner and author of The Sea . Buy or find out more→
Kepler
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The author of this book uses this history as a background to his novel, writing a work of historical fiction that is... Buy or find out more→
Doctor Copernicus
$21.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Retells the life of the sixteenth-century cleric whose ideas demolished the medieval view of the universe. Buy or find out more→
Mefisto
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. From the author of ATHENA and... Buy or find out more→
Birchwood
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
John Banville's black comedy of life in a disaster-ridden house on a large Irish estate. Buy or find out more→
The Book of Evidence
$19.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend, and he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act. He has little to say about the dead girl. He killed her, he says,... Buy or find out more→
Athena
$19.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
A thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. Buy or find out more→
Ghosts
$19.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
‘A beautiful, beguiling book full of resonances that continue to sound long after you’ve turned the final page. Its imagining is magical, its execution dazzlingly skilful.’ Sunday Tribune Ghostsopens with a shipwreck, leaving a... Buy or find out more→
Frames
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a... Buy or find out more→
The Sea
$22.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as... Buy or find out more→
Eclipse
$19.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some... Buy or find out more→
The Infinities
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
A bitter-sweet erotic comedy with magical overtones, a sort of demotic Midsummer Night's Dream. Set across one single summer's day, from dawn to the early hours of the next day, it tells the story of Adam, a successful... Buy or find out more→
The Jugger
$20.95 – Paperback / The University of Chicago Press
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 are on the verge of escaping from their closet -... Buy or find out more→
A Book of Irish Verse
$182.00 – Hardback / Taylor & Francis Ltd
Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. Buy or find out more→
El Otro Nombre de Laura
$36.95 – Paperback / Alfaguara
Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke: his beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies paralyzed in a convent hospital and Phoebe, his long-denied daughter,... Buy or find out more→
Wordgloss: A Cultural Lexicon
$65.95 – Paperback / The Lilliput Press Ltd
A comprehensive reference work consisting of a series of mini-essays, informed by Latin and Greek and a deep knowledge of the humanities. This book tells you where words and concepts came from, examining the myth or history that... Buy or find out more→
The Sea
$20.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Now a major film starring Ciaran Hinds, Rufus Sewell and Natascha McElhone. Buy or find out more→
The Infinities
$21.95 – Paperback / Vintage Books USA
Presents a bitter-sweet erotic comedy. This novel is set across one single summer's day, from dawn to the early hours of the next day. Buy or find out more→
The Snows of Yesteryear
$21.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc
The Snows of Yesteryear tells the story of growing up after World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire and a world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order and the innovations,... Buy or find out more→
Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form
$37.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary andobservation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, thiscollection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins sbody of work almost fifty years... Buy or find out more→
The Lord Chandos Letter: and Other Writings
$19.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc
In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit. Buy or find out more→
Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry
$80.00 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
Documents and celebrates the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the significant force in Mexican photography and one of the foremost practitioners of visual arts in the 20th century. This title includes over 360 sumptuous tritone... Buy or find out more→
Magnum Ireland
$90.00 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
This is a collection of photographs of the beautiful and complex land of Ireland, by some of the greatest names at Magnum, the leading photographic agency of modern times. Buy or find out more→
The Jugger
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Audiogo
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 are on the verge of escaping from their closet -... Buy or find out more→
The Score
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Audiogo
Parker works with a group of professional con men on his biggest job yet - robbing an entire town in North Dakota. Buy or find out more→