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Ancient Light by John Banville
$37.00 NZD
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
Ancient Light by John Banville
$26.00 NZD
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
$22.99 NZD
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
$32.88 NZD
Category: Crime & 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 (A Strafford And Quirke Mystery #2) by John Banville
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime & 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 h ...Show more
Best European Fiction 2014 by John Banville (Preface by); Drago Janar (Preface by); Dalkey Archive Press Staff (Editor)
$32.00 NZD
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)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Crime & 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
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Banville is superb ...there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them' - "The Economist". The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known a ...Show more
Eclipse by Banville, John
$27.95 NZD
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
Ghosts by John Banville
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to anoth ...Show more
Kepler by John Banville
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Revolutions Trilogy Ser.
'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge' - "Observer". Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. This novel brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the pl ...Show more