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John Banville
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…
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The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
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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…
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…
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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…
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 and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a…
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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…
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…
An unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered in her car, an apparent suicide. The victim’s sister, a newspaper reporter from…
A thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita.
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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…
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.
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…
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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Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a…
John Lanchester
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
A captivating, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader.
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‘This is the book John Banville was born to write’ Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
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…
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.
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable Banville joins the list of distinguished Preface writers for Hemon’s series, and A.S. Byatt represents England among…
John Banville,Edna O'Brien,Edna O'Brien
Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2013.
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…
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…
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…
Vladimir Nabokov
The classic novel from the author of Lolita, brilliantly portraying one man’s ruin through love and betrayal.
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…
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…
Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents.
Parker works with a group of professional con men on his biggest job yet - robbing an entire town in North Dakota.
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…
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;
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