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John Banville
ISBN:9780330371865
The third volume in a trilogy that began with "The Book of Evidence" and "Ghosts". Morrow is at a loose end when, separately, two people beckon him upstairs in an empty Dublin house. One offers him work of a dubious kind...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9780307279125
An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of "The Sea." "I am therefore I think." So starts John Banville's 1973 novel "Birchwood...more details Format:Paperback Pages:170
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...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330372343
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9780375725296
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330482226
This beautiful, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader; Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330339339
Alexander Cleave has always felt "watched", even when he is alone. Becoming an actor, he performs his way through life until at he peak of his career he suddenly leaves. He begins to unravel his own past in his childhood home...more details Format:Hardback
This work includes the following works: "The Book of Evidence": Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330373463
In "The Books of Evidence" Freddie Montgomery murders a chambermaid who caught him stealing; in "Ghosts" an unnamed murderer who lives on an unpopulated island is disturbed by the arrivals of castaways; while in "Athena" Morrow is offered work of a dubious kind as well as love....more details Format:Hardback Pages:600
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330371858
The second volume in the Freddie Montgomery trilogy. An unnamed murderer has served his time in prison, then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9781855144552
Fictional character sketches by John Banville, Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope and Minette Walters. To complement recent research into the identities of mystery sitters in its Collection...more details Format:Hardback Pages:96
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330372336
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 novel...more details Format:Paperback
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330372312
A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life...more details Format:Paperback
A historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However...more details Format:Paperback
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 alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradcany hill...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
The work of Copernicus famously shattered the medieval view of the universe. Here, his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that tells of a shy man...more details Format:Paperback Pages:600
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330373456
Two novels in this trilogy recreate the lives of two great scientists, Copernicus and Kepler, and their medieval and renaissance worlds. The third is the account of a historian's investigation of Newton's mental collapse in 1693....more details Format:Hardback
When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appear that long ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:264
The author of "The Untouchable" ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"--Patrick McGrath, "The New York Times Book Review") now gives us a luminous novel about love...more details Format:CD-Audio
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John Banville
ISBN:9780375725302
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330483148
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 identity - Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330412384
Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy of which he was both perpetrator and victim. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy of which he was both perpetrator and victim. Now...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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John Banville
ISBN:9780307272799
In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea, "John Banville gives us a dazzling new book that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals. On a languid midsummer's day...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:273
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John Banville
ISBN:9780307706652
In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea, "John Banville gives us a dazzling new book that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals. On a languid midsummer's day...more details Format:CD
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John Banville
ISBN:9780307474391
On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son...more details Format:Paperback Pages:273
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John Banville
ISBN:9781410428523
@lt;p@gt;On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals--Zeus...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:396
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ISBN:9780230748545
One midsummer's day in Arden, the Godley family gather at their dying father's bedside, a collection of troubled individuals and fraying relationships. The gods...more details Format:CD-Audio
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John Banville
ISBN:9781400097029
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces...more details Format:Paperback Pages:195
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John Banville
ISBN:9780307263117
The author of "The Untouchable" ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"--Patrick McGrath, "The New York Times Book Review") now gives us a luminous novel about love...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:195
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330483292
This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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John Banville
ISBN:9780679767473
One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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John Banville
ISBN:9780330339322
Examines the lives of the Cambridge spies, and in particular Anthony Blunt. The story is told by Blunt, in the form of a journal which starts on the "first day of the new life"...more details Format:Paperback
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Vladimir Nabokov;John Banville
ISBN:9780811216746
A reissue of the classic novel from the author of "Lolita" which brilliantly portrays one man's ruin through love and betrayal. ""Once upon a time there lived in Berlin...more details Format:Paperback Pages:292
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John Banville;Benjamin Black
ISBN:9781582343822
The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series.From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:120
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John Banville;John Lee
ISBN:9780739333778
The author of "The Untouchable" ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"--Patrick McGrath, "The New York Times Book Review") now gives us a luminous novel about love...more details Format:CD
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J G Farrell;John Banville
ISBN:9781590170182
1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Banville John
ISBN:9780330450249
In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea, "John Banville gives us a dazzling new book that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals. On a languid midsummer's day...more details Format:Hardback
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John ed Banville
ISBN:9780500543030
The changing faces of Ireland--social, political, and cultural--documented by some of the greatest photographers of the modern era. Since the invention of photography...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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Benjamin Black;Timothy Banville JohnDalton
ISBN:9781427202895
Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling "Christine"" ""Falls," and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead...more details Format:CD