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Shroud by John Banville
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cleave Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to disti ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
Snow by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oliver Otway Orme--a man equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating--is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been caught . . . until now. Unfortunately, the purloined possession in question is the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend. Fearing the consequences, Olly ...Show more
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of possession, the need to capture and fix the world around him. His worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, wi ...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)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Best NovelThe brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of Shroud and The Book of Evidence, John Banville is, without question, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language today. When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spe ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
$19.99 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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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