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1	The Sea more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife's death, but the drowning of two childhood friends, and, in the end, he finds that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The untouchable more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist John Banville's novel about an Englishman who was recruited to be a spy for the Soviets at Cambridge in the '30s is based on the true story of Sir Anthony Blunt. As in so much of Banville's fiction, the central theme is truth vs. falsehood: the difficulty of distinguishing between them, and the possibility that a person can virtually cease to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Doctor Copernicus more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose ideas and writings shattered the medieval view of the universe. "Kepler", also by John Banville, won "The Guardian" Fiction Prize in 1981. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.46! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Ghosts more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist 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 laconic companion Licht. A party of castaways then arrives with uneasy results. The second volume in the Freddie Montgomery trilogy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Book of Evidence more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist 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 testimony of Freddie Montgomery, a monologue reflecting on forty years of aimless drifting and a crime that has destroyed his life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Kepler more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The author of this book uses this history as a background to his novel, writing a work of historical fiction that is rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.47! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Shroud more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist All his life, a rude, bad-tempered old man named Axel Vander has taken delight in telling lies--particularly about his true identity, which is a secret he refuses to divulge. Then a young woman named Cass, who may be mad, and who is undeniably brilliant, threatens to expose him for who he really is, and Vander is forced to travel back into the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Prague Pictures: A Portrait of the City more books like this by John Banville, Benjamin Black add to wishlist 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 panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries. see all copies from $5.79! new only from $12.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Eclipse more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist After the death of his mother, a failed, aging actor named Alexander Cleave returns to the seaside town where he grew up and tries to come to terms with the disappointments of his life and with the people in it, including his estranged wife and his mentally disturbed daughter. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Athena more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist Although he has served his time and changed his name, there are people in Dublin who haven't forgotten that Morrow is a murderer. Pursued by a collection of strange characters, he also has to deal with his dying aunt and an increasingly sinister love affair. By the author of "The Book of Evidence". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Mefisto more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist The central character, Gabriel Swan, must choose between life and work, and decide how high the price should be for the artist who also wishes to live. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Birchwood more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The revolutions trilogy more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist 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, baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the truth. Johannes Kepler, born in 1571, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. This ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $10.85!
14 view cover	The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography more books like this by Gregor Von Rezzori, H F Broch De Rothermann (Translator), John Banville (Introduction by) add to wishlist Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine--a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $9.73! \| SVS
15 view cover	El Otro Nombre de Laura more books like this by Benjamin Black, John Banville, Miguel Martinez-Lage (Translator) add to wishlist Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke: his beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies paralyzed in a convent hospital and Phoebe, his long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated. With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to ... see all copies from $13.24! new only from $19.93!
16 view cover	The Infinities by John Banville add to wishlist 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, only nineteen, find that relations with their mother, Ursula, and their dying father, old Adam, are as strained as ever. Adam's relationship with his wife, Helen, seems too on the brink of collapse ... see all copies from $20.62! new only from $20.62! \| first editions
17 view cover	Superstition more books like this by Damien Hirst (Illustrator), John Banville (Introduction by), Philip Larkin (Contributions by) add to wishlist Published to accompany Damien Hirst's exhibition of butterfly paintings at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles in February 2007, "Superstition" is a visually stunning book that confirms Hirst's reputation as one of the most significant visual thinkers of his generation. Using 'High Windows', the last published volume of poems by Philip Larkin, as a ... see all copies from $126.84! new only from $126.84! \| first editions
18 view cover	Frames: "Book of Evidence", "Ghosts", "Athena" by John Banville add to wishlist This work includes the following works: "The Book of Evidence": Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend, and he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act. This is a remarkable crime novel, unlike any other in its flawlessly flowing prose, its irony, its aching sense of loss; ... see all copies from $28.28! new only from $28.28!
19	The Newton letter : an interlude by John Banville add to wishlist An historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However, as the summer wears on, he becomes obsessed by his writing. By the author of "The Book of Evidence", shortlisted for the Booker Prize. see all copies from $8.65!
20 view cover	Copernico more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist see all copies from $15.80! new only from $15.81!
21 view cover	Frames: Book of Evidence, Ghosts, Athena by John Banville add to wishlist In "The Books of Evidence" Freddie Montgomery murders a chambermaid who caught him stealing; in "Ghosts" an unnamed murderer who lives on an unpopulated island is disturbed by the arrivals of castaways; while in "Athena" Morrow is offered work of a dubious kind as well as love. see all copies from $219.34!
22 view cover	Newton Letter more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist A historian writing a book on Isaac Newton tries to discover the reason's for Newton's breakdown in 1693. Spending the summer in a cottage in the Irish countryside, he also becomes obsessed with his neighbors. These two plot strains eventually join in this unorthodox novel of self-discovery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.85! \| first editions
23 view cover	Dr Copernicus more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose ideas and writings shattered the medieval view of the universe. "Kepler", also by John Banville, won "The Guardian" Fiction Prize in 1981. see all copies from $22.43! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	El Mar by John Banville add to wishlist see all copies from $40.84! new only from $40.85!
25 view cover	God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich Von Kleist more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist see all copies from $28.15! new only from $28.15! \| signed copies \| first editions

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