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The Sea by John Banville
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When 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. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricat ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.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 an ...Show more
The Sea - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2005 by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 candou ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
54.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car--also borr ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 Godle ...Show more
The Untouchable by John Banville
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'"The Untouchable" is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent' - Richard Ford. Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement i ...Show more
The Untouchable by John Banville
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Victor Maskell has been betrayed: in Parliament, a revelation of his double, perhaps quadruple, life of espionage; in the press, photographs and inch-high type. But why now - as he enters his seventies, diagnosed with cancer, twenty years into "retirement" - and by whom? To figure it out before his time ...Show more
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville
49.99 AUD
Category: Travel
For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birthday - the 8th of December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception - he and his mother would journey by train to the capital city, passing frosted pink fields at dawn, to arrive at Westland Row and the beginni ...Show more