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A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier; Emily Boyce (Translator); John Banville (Introduction by)
27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
'Masterly' John Banville 'Wonderful . . . properly noir' Ian Rankin Marc dreams of going somewhere far, far away - but he'll start by taking his cat and his grown-up daughter, Anne, to an out-of-season resort on the Channel. Reluctant to go home, the curious threesome head south for Agen, whose main ...Show more
Ancient Light by John Banville
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'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: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back ...Show more
Ancient Light by John Banville
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
'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: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back ...Show more
April in Spain by John Banville
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller 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
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller 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
Eclipse by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned ...Show more
Elizabeth Bowen - Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen; John Banville (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
How's the Pain? [Editions Gallic] by Pascal Garnier; Emily Boyce (Translator); John Banville (Introduction by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
'One of the most remarkable and, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most inexplicably underappreciated French writers of the twentieth century' John Banville Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the c ...Show more
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
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Category: Fiction
A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA 'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism' The Times Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond ...Show more
Shroud by BANVILLE JOHN
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Category: Fiction
One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller 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
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.