Books by John Banville

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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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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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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'Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do' Irish ... 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, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but ... More

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'Banville is superb ...there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject ...

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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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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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'Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose' Sunday Times Morrow -- a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a ... More

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'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge' - "Observer". Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was ... 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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Is there a numerical solution to the quest for the meaning of life? A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme, Mefisto focuses on the ... 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 ...

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The best novel yet from the Booker Prize and Franz Kafka winnerthe anteroom to the Nobel Prize.

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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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John Banville's first published novel, which he later disavowed.

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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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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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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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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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