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Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with ...

In 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 Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the...

"From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters-Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence-as he is released from prison. A...

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 case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in ...

"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American w...

"A novel set in Venice at the turn of the twentieth century, narrated by a writer who becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder"-- Provided by publisher.

In 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 Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the...

When Quirke travels to the coast of San Sebastian, Spain for some relaxation, he sees a woman who he believes had been murdered by her brother several years prior.

Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. In this acclaimed novel, John Banville has evoked the brilliant, beautiful and cruel world which was Kepler's.

Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.

"A novel set in Venice at the turn of the twentieth century, narrated by a writer who becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder"-- Provided by publisher.

Max Borden is a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange...

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with ...

The year is 1957, and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford is summoned to County Wexford to investigate the murder of a parish priest, found dead at the home of local artistocrats. Strafford--flinty, visibly Protestant, and ...

For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Time Pieces is a vivid evocation of childhood and memory--that 'bright abyss' in which 'time's alchemy works'--and a tender and powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man.

Axel Vander is an elderly scholar renowned for both his unquestionable authority and the ferocity and violence that often mark his conduct. He is known to be Belgian by birth, and to have made a perilous escape from World War Europe. But Axel Vander is a fraud, and now a young wo...