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Ancient Light by John Banville
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic | 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
37.00 NZD
Category: 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
32.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
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
Christine Falls (Quirke #1) by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
33.00 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Quirke Ser.
A compelling new crime series from the pen of Booker Prize winner John Banville. In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job... it was restful, cosy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. ...Show more
Kepler by John Banville
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Revolutions Trilogy Ser.
'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge' - "Observer". Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. This novel brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the pl ...Show more
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA 'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism' The Times Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond ...Show more
Prague Pictures by John Banville
35.00 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The fourth title in the brilliant 'Writer and the City' series. 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 Hrad ...Show more
Shroud by John Banville
10.00 NZD
Category: 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
23.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
Snow by John Banville
32.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
'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
26.00 NZD
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
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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