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Ancient Light by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
John Banville's "Ancient Light" is a story of obsessive young love and the power of grief. 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' 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 ...Show more
April in Spain by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at all.' When Dublin path ...Show more
April in Spain: Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be who he ...Show more
Birchwood by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'This is one of the most startling of the century's varied achievements in Irish writing' - Seamus Deane. Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelli ...Show more
Mefisto by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Fable, intellectual thriller, Gothic extravaganza, symbolist conundrum ...a true work of art' - "Sunday Independent". Is there a numerical solution to the quest for the meaning of life? A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme, "Mefisto" focuses on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, w ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family - Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of possession, the need to capture and fix the world around him. His worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, wi ...Show more
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Colm Toibin 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, a dark and unsettling crime classic. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. F ...Show more
The Lock-Up by John Banville
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain is back, as Strafford and Quirke return with their most troubling case yet. 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Straff ...Show more
The Newton Letter by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art ..."The Newton Letter" gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to concentrate on anything until he had read it again to make sure that it seemed as good on the seconding reading. It did' - Terence de Vere White, "Irish Times". A ...Show more
The Sea - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2005 by John Banville
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Category: Literary | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candou ...Show more