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A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier; Emily Boyce (Translator); John Banville (Introduction by)
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'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
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
Category: Fiction
'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
Category: Fiction
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
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 by John Banville
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
April in Spain: Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 by John Banville
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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
Best European Fiction 2014 by John Banville (Preface by); Drago Janar (Preface by); Dalkey Archive Press Staff (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Best European Fiction Ser.
From Belarus to Wales! Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolutionaries of international literature. Fans of the series will find everything they’ve grown to love, while new readers will discover what they’ve been missing!
Birchwood by John Banville
Category: Fiction
'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
Christine Falls (Quirke #1) by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
Category: Fiction | Series: Quirke Ser.
A compelling new crime series from the pen of Booker Prize winner John Banville. In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job... it was restful, cosy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. ...Show more