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The Book of Evidence, the Sea by John Banville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: "The Sea, " winner of the Man Booker prize, and "The Book of Evidence, " an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. "The Book of Evidence" is a brilliantly disturbing portrait of an improbable murderer. ...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 Lemur by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Commissioned as a high profile serial by the "New York Times Magazine", "The Lemur" is a stylish new thriller from a rising star of literary crime.William ('Wild Bill') Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of hi ...Show more
The Lock-Up by John Banville
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crime
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
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When 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. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricat ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Sea - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2005 by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th
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
The Silver Swan (Quirke - Volume 2) by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime
The second Quirke novel from Man Booker prize-winning John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
$23.00 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 Singularities by John Banville
$55.00 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 Untouchable by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'"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
The Untouchable by John Banville
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Victor Maskell has been betrayed: in Parliament, a revelation of his double, perhaps quadruple, life of espionage; in the press, photographs and inch-high type. But why now - as he enters his seventies, diagnosed with cancer, twenty years into "retirement" - and by whom? To figure it out before his time ...Show more