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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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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
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
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.
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.
Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The author of this book uses this history as a background to his novel, writing a work of historical fiction that is rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.
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?
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.
'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
"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.
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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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Snow (Paperback)
John Banville
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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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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.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose ideas and writings shattered the medieval view of the universe. "Kepler", also by John Banville, won "The Guardian" Fiction Prize in 1981.
The second volume in the Freddie Montgomery trilogy. An unnamed murderer has served his time in prison, then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion, Licht. A party of castaways then arrives, with uneasy results.
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable
power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a
middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he
spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss
of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the
Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange
suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max
comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects
on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel
-- among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.
Alexander Cleave has left his acting career and family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but presences, ghostly and human, all conspire to distract him from his retirement.
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