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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** 'The ultimate page-turner.' IRISH
INDEPENDENT 'Like drinking Bollinger when your usual tipple is
Babycham.' THE TIMES The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow
and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's 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 Strafford soon
suspect foul play. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from
London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to
uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy
German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may
have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an
ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men
increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to
the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of
a hidden puzzle? Readers are loving The Lock-Up: ***** 'A real
page-turner. . . Highly recommend!' ***** 'Crime writing at its
finest' ***** 'Quite spectacular! John Banville is a wonderful
writer' ***** 'I had an absolute blast reading this novel. I
genuinely didn't want it to end.' **APRIL IN SPAIN AVAILABLE NOW**
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Marlowe (Paperback)
John Banville, Benjamin Black
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The Singularities
John Banville
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'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily
Telegraph Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from
a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is
a new family living in the drafty old house: descendants of the
late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley. Felix must now vie with
the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who
becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of
Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past
who comes bearing an unusual request...
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Kepler (Original ed.)
John Banville
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A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also
borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems.
There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys,
descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose
theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery
man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has
stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He
must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their
harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently
commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and
beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request.
With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits
some of his career s most memorable figures, in a novel as
mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived. The Singularities
occupies a singular space and will surely be one of his most
admired works.
THE LOCK-UP - A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY - IS
AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent
'Exquisite.' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic.' Financial Times 'This is crime
fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times 'The body is in the
library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Detective
Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate
a murder at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the
aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. Facing obstruction from all
angles, Strafford carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the
murderer. However, as the snow continues to fall over this
ever-expanding mystery, the people of Ballyglass are equally
determined to keep their secrets. 'A typically elegant country
house mystery.' Guardian 'A well-crafted story, peopled by superbly
well-drawn characters, and put together in the finest prose . . .
Masterly.' Irish Independent
THE LOCK-UP - A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY - IS
AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER 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
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 thinks she
is, and have a connection with a crime that nearly brought ruin to
an Irish political dynasty? Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke
makes a call back home and Detective St John Strafford is soon
dispatched to Spain. But he's not the only one on route: as a
terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a
brutal showdown. Praise for Snow: 'Superb ... crime fiction for the
connoisseur.' The Times 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent
'Exquisite.' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic.' Financial Times 'Compelling.'
Sunday Times 'Superb to the last drop.' Independent
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". The author uses the "secret life" as a way to explore the darker realms of the 20th century and its hidden minds.
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW 'Banville writes dangerous and
clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.'
DON DELILLO 'Crime writing of the finest quality, elegant,
distinctive and utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail 'John Banville is
one of the best novelists in English.' Guardian '[The Strafford and
Quirke series] promises to elevate the crime novel to new artistic
heights.' Financial Times The Sunday Times bestselling author of
Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's 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 Strafford soon
suspect foul play. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from
London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to
uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy
German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may
have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an
ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men
increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to
the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of
a hidden puzzle?
With an introduction by John Banville Winner of the Whitbread First
Novel Award 1996. To like something is to want to ingest it and, in
that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to
succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death. Tarquin Winot -
hedonist, food obsessive, ironist and snob - travels a circuitous
route from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in
Provence. Along the way he tells the story of his childhood and
beyond through a series of delectable menus, organized by season.
But this is no ordinary cookbook, and as we are drawn into
Tarquin's world, a far more sinister mission slowly reveals itself
. . . Winner of the 1996 Whitbread First Novel Award, John
Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food;
an erotic and sensual culinary journey. Its elegant, intelligent
and unhinged narrator is nothing less than a work of art himself.
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called
Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his
wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved;
and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's
Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells us, is the whole story
except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling
skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling,
original novel of folly and destruction. Amidst a Weimar-era milieu
of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a
merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to
his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the
scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the
downfall of others. Published first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in
1932, this book appeared in Nabokov's own English translation six
years later. This New Directions edition, based on the text as
Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker
Prize-winner John Banville.
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW 'Banville writes dangerous and
clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.'
DON DELILLO 'Crime writing of the finest quality, elegant,
distinctive and utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail 'John Banville is
one of the best novelists in English.' Guardian '[The Strafford and
Quirke series] promises to elevate the crime novel to new artistic
heights.' Financial Times The Sunday Times bestselling author of
Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's 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 Strafford soon
suspect foul play. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from
London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to
uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy
German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may
have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an
ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men
increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to
the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of
a hidden puzzle?
'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot
'You were silly like us; your gift survived it all;The parish of rich women, physical decay, yourself;Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.' - W.H Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats
'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 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 and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were
unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries,
the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew
to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would
haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was
to follow.
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The Palm House (Hardcover)
Amelia Stein; Foreword by John Banville; Brendan Sayers
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A monograph of duotone photographs, taken in the Palm House at the
National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, beautifully
illustrate this building as it was prior to its restoration. The
photographs capture the cluttered green jungle, worn by time and
held high in affection by the enchanted visitors who stepped inside
its lofty paradise. By bringing the reader around the house as it
was, drawing the eye to detail upwards, along its unique metal
walkway and into the smaller treasure, the orchid house; to look at
the intricate glass panels, metal structure, the wooden frames with
their own unique patina of the passage of time, The Palm House
tells its story visually. Meanwhile, in an accompanying text,
Brendan Sayers relates how a visitor felt on entering and exploring
this exotic world, the history and the origin of the planting, the
unique pot and tub culture, and the importance of the collection.
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How's the Pain? (Paperback)
Pascal Garnier; Translated by Emily Boyce; Introduction by John Banville
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How's the Pain? is an off-kilter, blackly comic novel about an
unlikely duo of a soon-to-be-retired assassin and a deadbeat young
man, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier.
'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times Death is
Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is
preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast,
and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's
never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for
Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on
their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin
is broader than he'd expected ... Veering from the hilarious to the
horrific, this offbeat story from master stylist Pascal Garnier is
at heart an affecting study of human frailty.
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.
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Troubles (Paperback)
J. G Farrell; Introduction by John Banville
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Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 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, whose
Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in
Kilnalough. But his fiancee is strangely altered and her family's
fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds
of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining
guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have
taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots
threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court.
Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter
Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to
room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there
is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence
of "the troubles." "Troubles" is a hilarious and heartbreaking work
by a modern master of the historical novel.
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Snow (Paperback)
John Banville
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You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you.
They notice "everything." That's their job. Sitting quietly in a
nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work
habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car
lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds.
Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at
the racetrack.They're thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They're
pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them. If you're
planning a job, you want him in. Tough, smart, hardworking, and
relentlessly focused on his trade, he is the heister's heister, the
robber's robber, the heavy's heavy. You don't want to cross him,
and you don't want to get in his way, because he'll stop at nothing
to get what he's after.Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard
Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable
characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut
realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose-style--and
adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing
urgency--Stark is a master of crime writing; his books as
influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press
has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this
series to print for a new generation of readers to discover--and
become addicted to. This season's offerings include volumes 4-6 in
the series: "The Mourner," "The Score," and "The Jugger.""The
Mourner "is a story of convergence--of cultures and of guys with
guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century
French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors,
greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents. Next, Parker works
with a group of professional con men in "The Score" on his biggest
job yet--robbing an entire town in North Dakota. In "The Jugger,"
Parker travels to Nebraska to help out a geriatric safecracker who
knows too many of his criminal secrets. By the time he arrives, the
safecracker is dead and Parker's skeletons are on the verge of
escaping from their closet--unless Parker resorts to lethal
measures. "Whatever Stark writes, I read. He's a stylist, a pro,
and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude."--Elmore Leonard "Westlake
knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the
story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is
impossible."--"Washington"" Post Book World""" "Donald Westlake's
Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and
over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about "War
and Peace" and Proust--these are the books you'll want on that
desert island."--Lawrence Block
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was
ever made."--Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the
twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast
erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of
individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In "The
Crooked Timber of Humanity" he exposes the links between the ideas
of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own
time: between the Platonic belief in absolute truth and the lure of
authoritarianism; between the eighteenth-century reactionary
ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century Fascism; between
the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant--and
sometimes genocidal--nationalism that convulses the modern
world.
This new edition features a revised text that supplants all
previous versions, a new foreword in which award-winning novelist
John Banville discusses Berlin's life and ideas, particularly his
defense of pluralism, and a substantial new appendix that provides
rich context, including letters by Berlin and previously
uncollected writings, most notably his virtuoso review of Bertrand
Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy."
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