banville john april in spain
Banville John April in Spain
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author 'He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn't. It wasn't simple at all.' When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be who he thinks she is, and have a connection with a crime that nearly brought ruin to an Irish political dynasty? Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home and Detective St John Strafford is soon dispatched to Spain. But he's not the only one on route: as a terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown.
1693 Руб.
Banville John Snow
'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.
1661 Руб.
Hooper John The New Spaniards
A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain. The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focussing on issues which affect ordinary Spaniards, from housing to gambling, from changing sexual mores to rising crime rates. John Hooper's fascinating study brings to life the new Spain of the twenty-first century.
2867 Руб.
Grisham John Theodore Boone: The Abduction
Following on from the bestselling Theodore Boone, John Grisham delivers high intensity legal drama for a new generation of readers. Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes are higher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone - who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up to Theo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turning suspense that made John Grisham a number one international bestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller, Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessing until the very end.
805 Руб.
Celine Louis-Ferdinand Journey to the End of the Night
First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine’s fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author’s own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine’s disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force. Foreword by John Banville. Introduction by Andre Derval.
3405 Руб.
Banville John Ancient Light
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 lover's 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 actor's own daughter's 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.
1704 Руб.
Banville John Mrs Osmond
Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief and the knowledge of having been grievously wronged, she determines to resume her youthful quest for freedom and independence. Soon Isabel must return to Italy and confront her husband, and seek to break his powerful hold on her. But will she succeed in outwitting him, and securing her revenge? Mrs Osmond is a masterly novel of betrayal, corruption and moral ambiguity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.
1637 Руб.
Banville John The Sea
When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping everything that was to follow.
1480 Руб.
Banville John The Lock-Up
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke’s most troubling case yet. 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?
3443 Руб.
Roth Philip The Counterlife
Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, The Counterlife was lauded by the likes of John Updike, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Banville and James Wood, as well as winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence. Illuminating these lives in free-fall and transformation is the acrobat mind of novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the sceptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey; a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire; a church in London's West End; or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank. Shot through with head-turning dualities, as daring as it is moving, The Counterlife reinvents the novel with style, wit and grace.
2419 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка Stiff Little Fingers / BBC Live In Concert (2LP)
SIDE ONE1. Root, Radicals, Rockers & Reggae (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) 2. Just Fade Away (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) 3. Safe As Houses (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) 4. Gate 49 (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) SIDE TWO1. Hits & Misses (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) 2. The Only One (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) 3. Silver Lining (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) 4. Piccadilly Circus (In Concert at the Paris Theatre, London, 8th April 1981) SIDE THREE1. Tin Soldiers (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) 2. Back To Front (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) 3. Piccadilly Circus (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) 4. Falling Down (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) SIDE FOUR1. That's When Your Blood Bumps (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) 2. Just Fade Away (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) 3. Fly The Flag (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982) 4. Gotta Getaway (In Concert at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2nd February 1982)
4690 Руб.
Виниловые пластинки, BMG, Sanctuary, STATUS QUO - The Best Of Status Quo (LP)
Каталожный номер BMGRM070LP, Формат LP, Лейбл BMG, SanctuaryA1 Down The DustpipeA2 GerundulaA3 In My ChairA4 UmleitungA5 Lakky LadyA6 DaughterB1 RailroadB2 Tune To The MusicB3 April, Spring, Summer And WednesdaysB4 Mean GirlB5 Spinning Wheel BluesProducer - John Schroeder
4700 Руб.
Banville John The Book of Evidence
Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a dark and unsettling crime classic. This special 25th anniversary edition features extra material. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a Dutch old-master painting from a wealthy family friend and murdered the chambermaid who caught him in the act. Narcissistic, greedy and reckless, Freddie travels through life apparently without remorse. However, as he narrates his testimony, he realises that the only person to be held responsible for his life, and his crimes, is himself. He just can't quite admit it yet… Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, John Banville's The Book of Evidence is a wonderfully dark, insightful and unnerving crime novel that takes us deep into the unreliable mind of an improbable murderer.
2492 Руб.
Marias Javier All Souls
All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea. The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.
2607 Руб.
Banville John The Book of Evidence. The Sea
Two of John Banville's most compelling novels are collected together in a single volume for the first time. The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won it in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder (The Book of Evidence) and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings (The Sea). With spellbinding virtuosity, Banville piles ambiguity upon ambiguity to construct tense tales of sex, betrayal and self-deception, which keep us turning the page, while questioning our own certainties about memory and identity. In both works, the acclaimed Irish novelist is revealed at his masterful best, conjuring dark wit, suspense and drama from the stunning lyrical beauty of his near-perfect prose.
4774 Руб.
Коричневые эспадрильи в винтажную клетку Burberry
Бренд: BurberryMade in Spain
59535 Руб.