Results for "Banville, John"

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A New York Times Editors' ChoiceBooker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car.... Read More about The Lock-Up: A Detective Mystery

The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize-winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with c... Read More about Doctor Copernicus

Don't miss this page-turner for the mystery lover*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coastDon't disturb the dead...On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despi... Read More about April in Spain: A Detective Mystery

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. “A triumphant piece of writing…Prose of such luscious elegance…Exhil... Read More about The Singularities: A novel (Vintage International)

A classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea depicts the end of innocence for a boy and his country. Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a dilapidated family manor filled with memories and despair. One disa... Read More about Birchwood

The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one of the world's greatest mat... Read More about Kepler