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Ancient Light by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
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
Ancient Light by John Banville
$29.95 AUD
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: Fiction
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 10 copy pack by John Banville
$299.90 AUD
Category: Fiction
Includes 10 copies of April in Spain, plus a free reading copy.
April in Spain: Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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!
Christine Falls (Quirke #1) by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | 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
Eclipse by Banville, John
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A lyrical and haunting new work of fiction by one of Ireland's greatest writers. Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in "a perpetual state of being watched" - even when alone. So he became an actor, and successfully performed his way through life until suddenly, ...Show more
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief ...Show more
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
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
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Writer and the City
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 Hradeany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolu ...Show more