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Set against a richly atmospheric backdrop, this new mystery features the beloved characters Strafford and Quirke. The story promises to engage readers with its intricate plot and compelling twists, characteristic of the author's bestselling style. Fans of previous works will find familiar themes woven throughout, creating a captivating narrative that blends suspense with depth.

In this atmospheric murder mystery set in 1950s rural Ireland, a loner discovers an empty car and becomes involved in a missing person's case. Detective Inspector Strafford and his brilliant yet flawed ally, pathologist Quirke, are drawn into the investigation as they navigate their complex relationship.

Set in Victorian London, the story follows Asher Grey, the sole consulting exorcist, who navigates the mystical realm hidden beneath the mundane. Tasked with addressing supernatural disturbances, Asher grapples with the challenges of his profession, particularly the struggle to attract paying clients. The narrative blends elements of the supernatural with the trials of a unique vocation, highlighting the tension between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

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 two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle?

Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, Dr. Benjamin Black finds himself at the centre of the Ebola outbreak, grappling with the highest maternal mortality rate globally amid a new, invisible threat. From the life-and-death decisions on the maternity ward to moral dilemmas in the Ebola Treatment Centers, every moment is a crossroads where a single choice could tip the balance between survival and catastrophe. The tension is palpable, and the stakes are unimaginably high. One mistake, one error of judgment, could spell disaster. Belly Woman is a powerful piece of reportage and advocacy that draws parallels between two global outbreaks of infectious diseases: Ebola and COVID-19. Black's firsthand experience on the frontlines of a global health crisis bears witness to the raw emotions, tough decisions, such as the need to carry out medically-mandated abortions to save lives, and the unwavering dedication that defines the lives of those who step up when the world needs them most. A compelling read for those with an interest in medical memoirs, social justice, and humanitarianism, as well as healthcare professionals and maternal health caregivers.

From the Booker Prize-winning John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car―also borrowed―onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits some of his career's most memorable figures, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived.

Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.

It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to assure the British public of their solidarity. But what of the two young princesses - Elizabeth and Margaret? How can they be kept safe without jeopardizing morale in the capital?

**THE DROWNED - THE CHILLING NEW STRAFFORD & QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent 'Exquisite.' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic.' Financial Times 'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times 'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. Facing obstruction from all angles, Strafford carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. However, as the snow continues to fall over this ever-expanding mystery, the people of Ballyglass are equally determined to keep their secrets. 'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian 'A well-crafted story, peopled by superbly well-drawn characters, and put together in the finest prose . . . Masterly.' Irish Independent

Eine Ode an die Stadt Dublin. Ein sehr persönlicher Dublin-Stadtführer und zugleich eine autobiographische Reise des großen irischen Schriftstellers und Man Booker Prize-Trägers John Banville an ganz besondere Orte in der Sehnsuchtsstadt seiner Kindheit. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Wexford durfte John Banville als Kind an seinem Geburtstag die exzentrische Lieblingstante in Dublin besuchen – das für ihn so zu einem Ort der Verheißungen wurde. Nachdem er als Erwachsener dorthin gezogen war, sah Banville Dublin zwar mit realistischeren Augen, und doch blieb die Faszination, die die Stadt schon auf den Siebenjährigen ausgeübt hatte. In diesem Buch führt Banville den Leser zu bekannten und weniger bekannten Plätzen. Dabei verwebt er die Erinnerungen, die sich an bestimmte Straßen und Gebäude knüpfen, mit einer großen Kenntnis des Orts und seiner Geschichte. Das Ergebnis ist eine wunderbar eigenwillige Tour durch Dublin; eine zärtliche und imposante Ode an die Stadt und eine Fundgrube für alle Dublin-Reisenden. Ein Buch, genauso vielschichtig, reich, geistreich und überraschend wie die Romane des großen irischen Romanciers und Krimiautors.

Negli anni Trenta un gruppo di intellettuali e accademici inglesi dell’università di Cambridge, in nome dell’ideologia e della fede comunista, si mise al servizio dell’Unione Sovietica, dando vita a un gruppo di spie tra le più famose del secolo. Da questo fatto storico John Banville prende spunto per il suo intrigantissimo romanzo, nel quale il protagonista, Victor Maskell, ha i connotati di un noto personaggio che di quel gruppo fece parte: Sir Anthony Blunt, storico dell’arte e intimo frequentatore della famiglia reale. L’intoccabile è la storia di una vita giocata tra gli estremi della verità e della menzogna, della rispettabilità e del disonore. Una memorabile ricostruzione di un’epoca brillante e inquieta, un’affascinante spy-story in cui non manca una sconvolgente rivelazione finale.

A worthy sequel... His book is not only an impressive recreation of James's atmospheres and pacing, but also full of minor cliff-hangers and page-turning suspenses that keep you guessing Observer

Christian Stern, un joven alquimista, erudito y ambicioso, llega a Praga en el invierno de 1599 con la intención de hacer fortuna en la corte del sacro emperador romano, el excéntrico Rodolfo II, sobrino de Felipe II. La noche de su llegada, borracho y perdido, Christian tropieza en el Callejón del Oro, junto al castillo, con el cuerpo sin vida de una joven en la nieve. Vestida de terciopelo, luce en el pecho un gran medallón de oro y un profundo tajo en el cuello. Stern entra al servicio del emperador, quien le confía la tarea de resolver el misterio del asesinato, pero a medida que se acerca a la verdad advierte que su propia vida corre grave peligro. Los lobos de Praga es la más pura esencia del mejor Banville y el mejor Black: una intriga deslumbrante y el hipnótico retrato de una ciudad mágica en una época perdida.

Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . . It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the spell of the Black-Eyed Blonde; but tangling with one of Bay Cityâe(tm)s richest families âe" and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune . . . In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction.

They leave so little trace, out lost ones. Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of possession, the need to capture and fix the world around him. His worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home and from here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. In his dazzling delineation of Oliver, John Banville has created one of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: compelling yet weak, desperate for love and yet inclined towards acts of terrible mischief. Set in a reimagined Ireland that is both familiar and deeply unsettling, The Blue Guitarreveals a life haunted by the desire to possess and always aware of the frailty of the human heart.

Cada red tiene una araña en su centro. El patólogo Quirke regresa a trabajar en la morgue de la ciudad, vigilando a los muertos de Dublín. Cuando se encuentra un cuerpo en un coche quemado, Quirke es llamado para verificar el aparente suicidio de un funcionario en ascenso. Sin embargo, Quirke no puede deshacerse de la sospecha de un juego sucio. El único testigo ha desaparecido, y toda pista de ella ha sido borrada. Al reconstruir su desaparición, Quirke se ve arrastrado al mundo sombrío de la élite de Dublín: sociedades secretas y política eclesiástica, políticos corruptos y hombres con dinero que perder. Cuando la pista finalmente lo lleva a su propia familia, el pasado y el presente chocan. Pero los crímenes del pasado deberían permanecer ocultos, y Quirke ha sacudido la red. Ahora debe esperar a ver qué sale corriendo. Adicción, obsesión sexual mórbida, chantaje y asesinato, así como una prosa tan nítida como una mañana de invierno junto al Liffey. Quirke es lo suficientemente humano como para conmover los corazones más duros.

Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras a John Banville por «su inteligente, honda y original creación novelesca» y a «su otro yo, Benjamin Black, autor de turbadoras y críticas novelas policiacas». Tras el éxito de La rubia de ojos negros llega la más poderosa de las entregas de Quirke hasta la fecha La madrugada en que el cuerpo de Jimmy Minor aparece flotando en las oscuras aguas del canal, ni Quirke ni su hija Phoebe pueden intuir hasta qué punto esa muerte va a remover sus propias vidas. Mientras Phoebe abre los ojos a una sensualidad desconocida, la investigación arrastra a Quirke de regreso al infierno de su infancia en el orfanato católico de Carricklea. ¿Podrá descubrir qué callan los muros de Trinity Manor? Y si lo consigue, ¿será capaz de sobrevivir a la herida de los propios recuerdos y regresar a la superficie?

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Madrid. 24 cm. 295 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Black, Benjamin 1945-. Traducción de Nuria Barrios. Título original: Vengeance. Barrios, Nuria. 1962- .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-204-1353-2

The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans. This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices.

The material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland’s greatest living novelist, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012’s Ancient Light; each piece standing alone, short-story-like, but also resonating with those around it and representing the novel from which it comes. There are radio plays, some published in print for the first time here. There is a judicious selection of his essays and reviews. Perhaps most beguiling of all are the pieces of memoir, the early work (including Banville’s first-ever piece of published fiction, from 1966) and the chance to see facsimiles of the handwritten first draft of the opening section of The Infinities. Possessed of a Past is an extraordinary document of the writer’s life and work across nearly fifty years of practice, simultaneously offering the perfect introduction to Banville’s sublime art and manna to devoted readers.

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Quirke, the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist, is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend. Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult love between a father and daughter, this is Black at his sparkling best.

Un denso y atmosférico crimen ambientado en el Dublín de los años 50. El adinerado editor Richard Jewell es encontrado muerto con una escopeta en sus manos ensangrentadas en su escritorio. ¿Se suicidó o fue asesinado? ¿Qué relación tienen el orfanato donde solía frecuentar y los misteriosos benefactores? El inspector Hackett y el forense Quirke inician la investigación. Aunque parece un suicidio, ambos consideran imposible que alguien se dispare con una escopeta y mantenga el arma en las manos. La atractiva pero enigmática esposa francesa de Jewell reacciona de manera impasible, mientras que su hermana, propensa a crisis, también despierta sospechas. Las indagaciones llevan al orfanato St. Christopher’s, donde Quirke vivió de niño. ¿Era Jewell realmente un mecenas o tenía intereses ocultos más allá del compromiso social? Un relato cautivador que entrelaza un intrigante argumento con personajes apasionantes en un escenario fascinante.

From the writer of the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, a new novel, a major literary event of the Autumn

Der Multimilliardär William Big Bill Mulholland will seine Memoiren schreiben lassen, und sein Schwiegersohn John Glass übernimmt widerwillig den Auftrag. Nach der Beauftragung eines Detektivs, der kurz darauf ermordet wird, wird klar, dass jemand Geheimnisse bewahren möchte.

William Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When he gets wind of a hostile biography planned for him by the investigative journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband to pen the official line.

El inconfundible Quirke regresa en un nuevo relato de John Banville, donde el patólogo se ve envuelto en un torbellino de peligros y engaños tras un dudoso suicidio. Dublín, años 50. Cuando Billy Hunt, un amigo de la universidad, se pone en contacto con Quirke porque su joven y hermosa esposa Deirdre supuestamente se ha quitado la vida, Quirke intuye que algo no está bien. Como patólogo y antiguo alcohólico, no es hombre que evite los problemas, por lo que decide investigar por su cuenta. Deirdre, dueña del salón de belleza "El cisne plateado", ha sido asesinada, y los principales sospechosos son su amante y socio Leslie White, un peluquero sin escrúpulos que tiene interés en la hija de Quirke, y el extraño sanador Dr. Kreutz, frecuentado principalmente por mujeres. Impulsado por su propia soledad y una insaciable curiosidad, Quirke se ve arrastrado a un escándalo donde se entrelazan obsesiones sexuales, hipocresía y extorsión.

Entre tabernas, humo, whisky, poderosas congregaciones religiosas y dudosas obras de caridad, el Dublín de los años 50 esconde terribles secretos. Por los pasillos de los orfanatos y tras los pasos de silenciosas monjas de centros que acogen a mujeres embarazadas de las clases más desfavorecidas de la ciudad, crece una tenebrosa red de tráfico de niños. Solo un patólogo, perdido entre sus propios sentimientos de culpa, será capaz de enfrentarse a los oscuros planes que está maquinando algunos miembros de las más poderosas familias junto a las más altas esferas de la iglesia católica. Todo va ser cuestión de fe

This lively and engaging reference book explores the meaning and etymology of common Latin and Greek phrases in law, politics, science, technology, literature, philosophy, and the arts.

El silencio y el mar en ese pequeño pueblo costero siguen siendo como antes, pero él no es el mismo. Un verano, hace muchos años, Max Morden se adentró con una pequeña barca en el mar embravecido de la adolescencia, donde conocio a los Grace, una familia que le mostró el blanco y el negro de la vida, y también su escala de grises. Ahora, poco después de la muerte de su esposa, Max regresa al pasado para tratar de reconstruir los restos de un naufragio que nunca ha podido olvidar.

John Banville, heredero confeso de la malicia de Nabokov y la prosa de Beckett, se ha convertido en una de las voces más tersas, sugerentes y originales de las letras en lengua ingles, y en uno de los artífices del renacimiento de la literatura irlandesa. Su primer libro, Long Lankin, apareció en 1970, y luego se han sucedido, entre otros, Copérnico (ganador del Premio James Tait Black en 1976), Kepler (ganador del Premio Guardian 1981), El libro de las pruebas (1991), El intocable (1999), La carta de Newton (2001), Eclipse (2002) y Mefisto (2002). Actualmente reside en Dublín, donde es editor del Irish Times.

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 late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradèany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolutions, floods, the imposition of Soviet communism, and even the depredations of the tourist boom after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 could not destroy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful, proud, and melancholy city on the Vltava. John Banville traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it: the emperors and princes, geniuses and charlatans, heroes and scoundrels. He also paints a portrait of the Prague of today, reveling in its newfound freedoms, eager to join the European Community and at the same time suspicious of what many Praguers see as yet another totalitarian takeover. He writes of his first visit to the city, in the depths of the Cold War, and of subsequent trips there, of the people he met, the friends he made, the places he came to know.

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A collection of three captivating historical novels featuring Dr. Copernicus, Kepler, and The Newton Letter, all in one volume.

"Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in 'a perpetual state of being watched' - even when alone. So he became an actor, and successfully performed his way through life until suddenly, at the peak of his career, he corpsed in the middle of the last act and staggered off stage, never to return." "Self-banished to his childhood home and cut off from his wife, Cleave begins to unravel the past and disinter his own identity. But his attempt to retire, to sift and discard the accumulated clutter of half a century of existence, is undermined by the house itself, brimming with lives, both ghostly and undeniably, robustly human. Memory constantly displaces Cleave's attention to the small, delicate details of the present. So too does his anxiety about the future, and the thought of his beloved but troubled daughter, Cass, tugging away at him like an undertow."--BOOK JACKET.

Opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence.

'This is the book John Banville was born to write' Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts 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."--Boston Globe. From the Trade Paperback edition.

First-time paperback of the first novel by the author of Ghosts and The Book of Evidence

A historical novel based on the life and work of Johannes Kepler, the great astronomer of the 17th-century, which was winner of "The Guardian" Fiction Prize in 1981. The author also wrote "Doctor Copernicus" which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 and "The Newton Letter".

Como estudiante de ciencias naturales, Freddy Montgomery dejó Irlanda para hacer carrera en los Estados Unidos. Se casó con una americana, pero ambos abandonaron el mundo académico tras unos años, desperdiciando tiempo, dinero y talento. En una situación financiera crítica, se ve obligado a pedir dinero a un individuo sospechoso, quien lo presiona de manera intensa. Esto lo lleva a regresar a Irlanda en busca de la suma necesaria. Su antigua patria le resulta extraña, y los reencuentros con viejos conocidos desatan avalanchas de dudas y cuestionamientos sobre sí mismo. Para conseguir dinero, visita a un coleccionista de arte amigo, pero al intentar robar una pintura, es sorprendido por la sirvienta. En un forcejeo, la mata. Los días previos a su arresto los vive en un torbellino de desesperación, embriaguez y autodesprecio. Freddy Montgomery confiesa sin titubeos su culpabilidad en el asesinato y, a través de su declaración, busca relatar el camino de su vida.

The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life.

`Fable, intellectual thriller, Gothic extravaganza, symbolist conundrum . . . a true work of art' Sunday Independent

An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea . I am therefore I think . So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood , a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.