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The Blue Guitar by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oliver Otway Orme--a man equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating--is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been caught . . . until now. Unfortunately, the purloined possession in question is the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend. Fearing the consequences, Olly ...Show more
The Infinities by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is unequivocally a work of brilliance' - Justin Cartwright, "Spectator". Old Adam Godley's time on earth is drawing to an end, and as his wife and children gather at the family home, little do they realize that they are not the only ones who have come to observe the spectacle. The mischievous Gree ...Show more
The Lock-Up by John Banville
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller 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 Sea by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a chi ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.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 an ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
54.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 characters as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car--also borr ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily Telegraph 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 house: descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godle ...Show more
The Untouchable by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'"The Untouchable" is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent' - Richard Ford. Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement i ...Show more
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville
49.99 AUD
Category: Travel
For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birthday - the 8th of December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception - he and his mother would journey by train to the capital city, passing frosted pink fields at dawn, to arrive at Westland Row and the beginni ...Show more