John Banville

Año de 1899. A las puertas del nuevo siglo, el escritor inglés Evelyn Dolman se casa con Laura Rensselaer, hija de un magnate estadounidense del petróleo. Dolman confía en que heredarán una considerable fortuna y llevarán una vida cómoda y estable.

Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons, the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his photograph is all over the papers....

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home....

One of Stephen King's Best Books of the 21st Century "It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living." Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists...

"When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller." —Kirkus Reviews As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain’s secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. "A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." —The Boston...

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is...

Huyendo de Roma y de un matrimonio demoledor, Isabel Osmond viaja a Londres, donde se repone de la reciente revelación de la traición de su marido durante largos años. ¿Qué hacer ahora, qué camino debería seguir....

Freddie Montgomery acaba de salir de prisión y es un hombre nuevo. Bajo el pseudónimo de Felix Mordaunt vuelve al viejo caserón de su infancia, donde ahora vive la familia del fallecido Adam Godley, el gran físico cuya teoría revolucionó la concepción del universo....

“Boutsikaris does a standout job. . . . Thug or cop, heiress or moll, he gives them all distinct voices that fit well with the book's Chandleresque prose and dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly “Dennis Boutsikaris narrates with marvelous aplomb. He nails the cool but inviting tone, the clipped...

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...

En una época de mentes cerradas en la que reinaban el caos y una concepción errónea del universo aceptada desde hacía siglos, unos pocos hombres se atrevieron a cuestionar esa visión, decididos a descubrir y revelar cómo funcionaba el mundo....

Kunsthistorikeren Max Morden er vendt tilbage til den kystby, hvor han tilbragte sine ferier som dreng - en retræte fra den sorg, vrede og tomhed, han føler, efter at hans kone nylig er død af kræft....

Ein sehr persönlicher Dublin-Stadtführer und zugleich eine autobiographische Reise des großen irischen Schriftstellers und Man Booker...

In the second book of John Banville’s masterful Quirke series, a faked suicide ensnares the pathologist in a deadly web of cons and deceit It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to irascible Dublin pathologist Quirke. Quirke's...

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde—also published as Marlowe as by John Banville—the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old...

Dublino, metà anni Cinquanta. Non è un bel periodo per l’anatomopatologo Quirke: una sua ex fiamma muore, un uomo che in passato stimava è in fin di...

Una sera, dopo aver partecipato a una festa d'addio ai piani alti dell'ospedale, l'anatomopatologo Quirke scende a cercare un po' di quiete nel proprio...

Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from Booker Prize-winning "literary polymath" (The New York Times) John Banville Two men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But Detective Inspector...