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Ancient Light by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$29.95 AUD
Category: General 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: Crime and 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 by John Banville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
April in Spain (A Strafford And Quirke Mystery #2) by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: General 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 h ...Show more
Eclipse by Banville, John
$22.95 AUD
Category: General 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
$22.00 AUD
Category: General 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
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Shroud by John Banville
$22.00 AUD
Category: General 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'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 Book Of Evidence by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Frames Ser.
The first in a trilogy with "Ghosts" and "Athena". Freddie Montgomery is a gentleman first and a murderer second. He committed two crimes - he stole a painting from a wealthy family friend and he killed a chambermaid who caught him in the act. Here he tells his story. First published 1989.