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Ancient Light by John Banville
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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
April in Spain: Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 by John Banville
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author. When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be who he ...Show more
Christine Falls (Quirke #1) by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville)
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City by John Banville
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Writer and the City
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 Hradeany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolu ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
Snow by John Banville
$23.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$24.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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