Ghosts
$22.40
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2026
Summary
Ghosts opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle’s reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence.
Onto this seemingly haunted island, where a strange singing hangs in the air, John Banville drops a scrumptious cast of characters - including a murderer - …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035076833 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035076837 |
| Author: | John Banville |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |

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Critics Review
As fascinating, complex, stimulating and energetic as any work of art … A work which proves Banville as a master, the artist in total control of his craft. * The Times *
John Banville’s funniest book … another triumph by our most outrageously inventive and daring novelist. * Sunday Independent *
Makes this astonishingly attractive novelist one of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction. * London Review of Books *
A beautiful, beguiling book full of resonances that continue to sound long after you’ve turned the final page. Its imagining is magical, its execution dazzlingly skilful. * Sunday Tribune *
John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
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