Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, thirty-eight-year-old Freddie Montgomery commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory...

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals...

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 es...

Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love—an underage affair with his best friend's mother. When his stunted acting care...

Year five of the Best European Fiction series brings another crop of cutting-edge short stories from across the continent.From Belarus to Wales! Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolut...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD*A Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearANew York TimesEditors’ Choice Pick“Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…...