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**THE DROWNED - THE CHILLING NEW STRAFFORD & QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**Addictive.DAILY TELEGRAPHHypnotic.SUNDAY BUSINESS POSTCrime writing of the highest quality.DAILY MAILThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirkes most troubling case yet. 1950s Dublin. The body of a young woman is discovered in a lock-up garage, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.The victims sister returns from London to help the two men, but, with relations between them increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to events from the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle before its too late?Atmospheric and sinister with simmering tension . . . Once you start reading, its impossible to stop.DAILY EXPRESSReaders are loving The Lock-Up: ***** A real page-turner. . . Highly recommend! ***** Crime writing at its finest ***** Quite spectacular! John Banville is a wonderful writer ***** I had an absolute blast reading this novel. I genuinely didnt want it to end.

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.

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

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.

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

Dont disturb the dead. On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax - despite the beaches, the cafes and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife.

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 entre los años treinta y sesenta tambien fue un topo de los rusos infiltrado en el corazon mismo del establishment britanico. Ahora acaba de ser publicamente expuesto como un traidor en la Camara de los Comunes por la señora Thatcher es el cuarto hombre del mitico grupo de espias de Cambridge y se dispone a enfrentarse a la humillacion publica o simplemente a soportarla, como el estoico que siempre ha dicho ser, convertido para siempre en un paria, un intocable. Pero ya es un hombre viejo, quizas a las puertas de la muerte, y en un ultimo acto de develamiento, 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 despojando a la tela de su vida de las infinitas capas de mugre, barniz 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.

Una pequeña obra maesta en la que cada una de sus imágenes provoca resonancias que siguen acompañando al lector mucho después de concluida su lectura. A través del anónimo historiador que protagoniza esta novela, nos acercamos a un fenomeno poco explorado hasta el momento: el colapso que impide al escritor o al cientifico concluir una obra.

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

Mefisto, brillante recración del tema clásico del doctor Fausto, cuenta la historia del prodigio de la matemática Gabriel Swan, un hombre obsesionado con la búsqueda de una solución numérica a la falta de orden y sentido en el mundo. Escrita con un polied

Alexander Cleave ha vivido siempre con la sensación de ser mirado y tal vez por eso decidió ser actor. Ha tenido éxito, y las miradas se han convertido en admiración; él mismo se describe, y no se equivoca, como el Hamlet perfecto: pelo rubio y lacio, helados ojos azules y una bien dibujada mandibula, delicada, pero tambien refinadamente brutal y, a los cincuenta años, aun es razonablemente guapo. Hasta que un dia se queda mudo en el escenario, huye y se retira a la casa de su infancia; su mujer lo acompañara los primeros dias, pero luego se quedara solo. No es una separacion, pero hay muchas cosas que no funcionan en su vida y Alexander cree que esta vuelta a los inicios acaso le permita comprender. La casa ha estado largo tiempo deshabitada y Alexander comienza a percibir presencias extrañas, fantasmas tenues, pero tambien las huellas de seres mucho mas terrenales. Porque Quirque, el cuidador de la casa, y Lily, su hija adolescente, viven alli clandestinamente. Y tambien una joven mujer con un niño, entrevista apenas, y que quiza no sea un fantasma del pasado, sino del porvenir.