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The Lemur by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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
$36.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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 Sea by John Banville
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Best NovelThe brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of Shroud and The Book of Evidence, John Banville is, without question, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language today. When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spe ...Show more
The Sea - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2005 by John Banville
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Silver Swan (Quirke - Volume 2) by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The second Quirke novel from Man Booker prize-winning John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Singularities by John Banville
$65.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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 Untouchable by John Banville
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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