Books by john banville

First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize, one of the ... More

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A story of obsessive young love and the power of grief, "Ancient Light" is the best novel yet from the Booker Prize winner of "The Sea". 'Billy Gray ... More

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Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the ... More

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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 ... More

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This novel by the author of "The Newton Letter", "Mefisto" and "Kepler" is a blend of thriller and black comedy. It is the first-person prison ... More

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Alexander Cleave has always felt "watched", even when he is alone. Becoming an actor, he performs his way through life until at he peak of his career ... More

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From the writer of the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea", comes a new novel, a major literary event of the Autumn. John Banville is one of the finest ... More

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This is the story of a man who hides a dark secret from his past. Despite the fact that he has served his time and changed his name, there are too ... More

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A historical novel which recreates the life of Johannes Kepler, one of the world's greatest mathematicians. From the author of THE NEWTON LETTER.

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From the author of THE NEWTON LETTER and LONG LANKIN, the novel about the work of Nicolas Kopernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose work led to ... More

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Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until ... More

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A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical ... More

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'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art ...The Newton Letter gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to ... More

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An unnamed murderer has served time in prison then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his ... More

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One long, languid midsummer's day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, ... More

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This work includes the following works: "The Book of Evidence": Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a ... More

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The work of Copernicus famously shattered the medieval view of the universe. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that tells of a shy man, ... More

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Two novels in this trilogy recreate the lives of two great scientists, Copernicus and Kepler, and their medieval and renaissance worlds. The third is ... More

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This is novelist Banville's first venture for the stage, a free translation of a work by Heinrich von Kleist. The setting is changed from Germany to ... More

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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 ... More

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First-time paperback of the first novel by the author of Ghosts and The Book of Evidence

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A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's career, "Long Lankin" explores the passionate ... More

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The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series. From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, this is a ... More

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