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The Sea

The Sea is John Banville's remarkable, Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.'You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I'll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years' - The TimesWhen art historian 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.The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately. What happened next would haunt him for the rest of his years, and shape everything that was to follow.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Venetian Vespers

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Holy Orders

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'Stunning' Independent'Impressive' Irish TimesWhen spring storms descend on 1950s Dublin, a body is found in a canal, and pathologist Quirke must find the truth behind this brutal murder.

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Vengeance

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence; The Sea, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize; and the bestselling Stafford & Quirke series, which has twice been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.

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Elegy for April

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence; The Sea, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and, most recently; the bestselling Stafford & Quirke series, which has twice been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.

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The Silver Swan

'Absorbing, atmospheric' Guardian'A romp of a read, a compelling fix' ScotsmanIn 1950s Dublin, world-weary pathologist Quirke is reckoning with grief.