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A story of obsessive young love and overwhelming grief from the Booker Prize-winning author - now a Penguin Essential 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love...

From one of the world's greatest writers comes a story of theft and adultery Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy. Oliver...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Following the discovery of the body of a well-loved...

'Exceptionally vivid and intense' Sunday Times 'A marvellously dark yarn' The Spectator 'Swaggering debut' Daily Mail But everyone expects at least a little bit of deception as they go through...

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...

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,...

Snobbish Tarquin Winot sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. As he travels, he introduces his life through...

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This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can...

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A contemporary trilogy of unerring brilliance and power that tells the whole story of Freddie Montgomery, murderer. The Book Of Evidence: Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a...

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The Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation...

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John Banville's black comedy of life in a disaster-ridden house on a large Irish estate.

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether...

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 husband...

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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....

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...

A lyrical and haunting new work of fiction by one of Ireland's greatest writers...Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in "a...

Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, 'devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art', who in the late 1500s summoned...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW 'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN 'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.'...

Author: John Banville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Northern Spain is southern Ireland,' she said. 'It rains all the time, everywhere is green, and everyone is Catholic. You will...

Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets - and carefully concealed...

Author: John BanvilleFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 461g, 352 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Crime writing of the finest quality, elegant, distinctive and utterly absorbing.' Daily...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of literary fiction, The Untouchable chronicles the final confessions of Victor Maskell, a fictional...

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THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW . A CHILLING MUST-READ. 'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL 'Banville is one of my...

'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....

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW 'Absorbing' The Times 'Gripping' Scotsman Quirke's pathology department, set deep beneath 1950s Dublin, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always...

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW . A CHILLING MUST-READ. 'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL 'Banville is one of my...

A chilling historical mystery set in 16th-century Prague from a true literary crime writer 'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned...

How do you choose between love and honour? Fleance, the 2-year old son of Scottish thane Banquo has been living rough in the words of northern England since he escaped...

A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND...