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A captivating, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader.

A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.

AVAILABLE FOR PRE ORDER NOW Banville is one of my favourite writers alive REBECCA F KUANG The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful sometimes chilling prose FINANCIAL TIMES The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow He had seen drowned people A sight not to be forgotten 1950s rural Ireland A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field Knowing he shouldn t approach but unable to hold back he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person s case as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford who soon turns to his old ally the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways Praise for Snow Superb crime fiction for the connoisseur The Times Outstanding Irish Independent Exquisite Daily Mail Compelling Sunday Times Superb to the last drop Independent

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLANDIn the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good.While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realization that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.In a novel that is at once a tender coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinemas most intriguing figures, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame, of family and the treacherous lure of nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide it's time to let go?This is a charming, bittersweet book, and a perfect reminder of art's value in stark times.Spectator

Victor Maskell, homosexual y esteta, es un eminente historiador del arte, experto en Pussin y conservador de la colección de pinturas de la reina de Inglaterra, y también fue un topo de los rusos infiltrado en el corazon del establishment britanico. Ahora acaba de ser publicamente expuesto como un traidor en la Camara de los Comunes y se dispone a enfrentarse a la humillacion publica o simplemente a soportarla, convertido para siempre en un paria, un intocable. Pero ya es un hombre viejo, y en un ultimo acto de desvelamiento, o quizas de suprema venganza, decide escribir sus memorias. Sera este un proceso semejante a la restauracion de uno de los cuadros que tanto amo, y pagina tras pagina ira des-pojando a la tela de su vida de las capas de mugre, bar-niz y pinturas que ocultan otras pinturas, hasta que por fin reaparezca la figura autentica, o al menos la que mas se parece a la verdad. La mejor ficcion contemporanea no puede llegar mas alto (Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review); Banville es el escritor de lengua inglesa mas inteligente, el estilista mas elegante (George Steiner); Una novela asombrosa, de una imaginacion y una belleza notables (Edward W. Said).NOTAS PARA ISBN:El autor es ingles.

1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered in her car, an apparent suicide. The victims sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth as it transpires she had been pursuing a thesis on the history of Jews in Ireland.

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.Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a Dutch old-master painting from a wealthy family friend and murdered the chambermaid who caught him in the act. Narcissistic, greedy and reckless, Freddie travels through life apparently without remorse. However, as he narrates his testimony, he realises that the only person to be held responsible for his life, and his crimes, is himself. He just can''t quite admit it yet . . .Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, John Banville''s The Book of Evidence is a wonderfully dark, insightful and unnerving crime novel that takes us deep into the unreliable mind of an improbable murderer.

Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: The Sea, winner of the Man Booker prize, and The Book of Evidence, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize.The Book of Evidence is a brilliantly disturbing portrait of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the reader an extended testimony. However, the evidence Freddie offers is not of his innocence, but of his lifeof the circumstances that led to and (in his chillingly amoral mind) justified his grisly crime. Hauntingly reminiscent of Camus, Dostoevsky, and Nabokov, The Book of Evidence is among the most darkly compelling novels in international literature.The Sea follows retired art historian Max Morden to the seaside town where he spent his childhood summers. Max is grieving the loss of his wife, Anna, but returning to the seaside brings back intense memories of the wealthy and mysterious family in whose presence he had first learned about love and loss. Banvilles exploration of the unpredictable power of memorya force as treacherous as the sea that pulses through the story. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on himis at the center of this elegiac, vividly dramatic, beautifully written novel.

A través de la fascinante figura de Copérnico, Banville realiza una luminosa reconstrucción de su tiempo, en el que la curiosidad científica limita con el prejuicio y la tolerancia.

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 of his lovers car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actors own daughters suicide ten years before. Ancient Light is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment.Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death Financial TimesBanville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work Independent on SundayStartlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning Sunday Telegraph

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