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Shroud by BANVILLE JOHN
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
Snow by John Banville
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
'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 Book Of Evidence by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: 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.
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Colm Toibin 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, a dark and unsettling crime classic. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. F ...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)
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
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: Crime Thriller Mystery
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 Newton Letter by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art ..."The Newton Letter" gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to concentrate on anything until he had read it again to make sure that it seemed as good on the seconding reading. It did' - Terence de Vere White, "Irish Times". A ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The 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 chi ...Show more