Ancient Light

Written by John Banville

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95705-4 (0-307-95705-5)

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory... Read more >

Athena

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73685-1 (0-679-73685-9)

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. Read more >

Birchwood

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27912-5 (0-307-27912-X)

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... Read more >

The Book of Evidence

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72523-4 (0-375-72523-7)

John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.

Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife... Read more >

Doctor Copernicus

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1993
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73799-5 (0-679-73799-5)

Sixteenth century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter... Read more >

Eclipse
A Novel
Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72529-6 (0-375-72529-6)

With this latest novel, John Banville–who has forged a brilliant international reputation with such works as The Book of Evidence and The Untouchable–applies piercing reality to a ghost story to create a profoundly moving tale of a man confronting a life gone awry.

The renowned actor Alexander Cleave has had a breakdown... Read more >

Ghosts

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 1994
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75512-8 (0-679-75512-8)

In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville 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 writing in English today."—Boston Globe. Read more >

The Infinities

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47439-1 (0-307-47439-9)

On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the... Read more >

Kepler
A novel
Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74370-5 (0-679-74370-7)

In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Wars, witchcraft, and disease rage throughout Europe. For this court mathematician, vexed by domestic strife... Read more >

The Sea

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9702-9 (1-4000-9702-9)

****WINNER OF THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE****

Max is a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness... Read more >

Shroud

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72530-2 (0-375-72530-X)

One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is... Read more >

The Untouchable

Written by John Banville

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76747-3 (0-679-76747-9)

Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction

One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence... Read more >

The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction

Written by Dermot Bolger

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76546-2 (0-679-76546-8)

This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of astonishing breadth reveals a literature of genuine global stature, as ancient as the Irish Sea.

Contributors and stories include:
John Banville... Read more >

The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9656-5 (1-4000-9656-1)

Widely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.

This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four... Read more >

The Death of the Heart

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 9, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72017-5 (0-385-72017-3)

The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.

In this piercing... Read more >

Eva Trout

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72131-8 (0-385-72131-5)

Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.

Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband, Eric. From a safe distance in London... Read more >

The Heat of the Day

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72128-8 (0-385-72128-5)

In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.

Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one of... Read more >

The House in Paris

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72125-7 (0-385-72125-0)

When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother’s. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little does she know what fascinating secrets the Fisher house itself... Read more >

The Last September

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72014-4 (0-385-72014-9)

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen’s portrait of a young woman’s coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.

In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and... Read more >

A World of Love

Written by Elizabeth Bowen

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3105-4 (1-4000-3105-2)

In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth.

In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are... Read more >

Ghosts and Lightning

Written by Trevor Byrne

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47395-0 (0-307-47395-3)

Set in contemporary Dublin and the surrounding countryside, Ghosts and Lightning is a picaresque account of Denny Cullen's life after he is called back home to attend his mother's funeral. Denny—a sweet-natured but disillusioned young man who feels powerless in the face of death, dope and the dole queue—is the steadiest... Read more >

For the Love of Ireland

Edited by Susan Cahill

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43419-7 (0-345-43419-6)

For the Love of Ireland collects work of Ireland's greatest writers within a travelogue. Author Susan Cahill walks the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle, contemplates the glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney, wanders the Cliffs of Moher with Wallace... Read more >

The Riddle of the Sands

Written by Erskine Childers
Introduction by Milton Bearden

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $9.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6614-5 (0-8129-6614-7)

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers—who served in the Royal Navy during World War I—as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, The Riddle of the Sands... Read more >

Reading in the Dark
A Novel
Written by Seamus Deane

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70023-1 (0-375-70023-4)

A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award

“A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden... Read more >

The Commitments

Written by Roddy Doyle

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 17, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72174-1 (0-679-72174-6)

This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin! Read more >