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Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBanville is superb... there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: \u003cem\u003eDoctor Copernicus\u003c\/em\u003e is among the very best of them\u003c\/em\u003e - The Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550296490220,"sku":"9781035076819","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035076819-doctor-copernicus.jpg?v=1776800903"},{"product_id":"eclipse-by-john-banville-9781035076840","title":"Eclipse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first of John Banville's Cleave Trilogy, concerning father and daughter Alexander and Cass Cleave, \u003cem\u003eEclipse\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical exploration of memory, family and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories and anxiety for the future, and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in attempting to bring the performance to a close, finds himself travelling inevitably towards a devastating denouement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This unsparing, compassionate, humane book demonstrates again that Banville is in a class of his own\"\u003c\/em\u003e - The Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550300225772,"sku":"9781035076840","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035076840-eclipse.jpg?v=1776800928"},{"product_id":"ghosts-by-john-banville-9781035076833","title":"Ghosts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhosts\u003c\/em\u003e 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOnto this seemingly haunted island, where a strange singing hangs in the air, John Banville drops a scrumptious cast of characters—including a murderer—and weaves a tale where the details are clear but the conclusion polymorphous. Shifting appearances, transformations, and thwarted assumptions make this world of uneasy calm utterly enthralling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'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'\u003c\/em\u003e – The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'John Banville's funniest book . . . another triumph by our most outrageously inventive and daring novelist'\u003c\/em\u003e – The Sunday Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Makes this astonishingly attractive novelist one of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction'\u003c\/em\u003e – The London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550324703468,"sku":"9781035076833","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035076833-ghosts.jpg?v=1776801081"},{"product_id":"kepler-by-john-banville-9781035076826","title":"Kepler","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of John Banville's Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, \u003cem\u003eKepler\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeous historical novel exploring the life of Johannes Kepler, one of the world's greatest mathematicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel \u003cem\u003eKepler\u003c\/em\u003e, by John Banville, brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time, it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world; rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor, and the tyrannical power of emperors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge'\u003c\/em\u003e - The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550344364268,"sku":"9781035076826","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035076826-kepler.jpg?v=1776801517"},{"product_id":"shroud-by-john-banville-9781035076857","title":"Shroud","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark secrets and reality unravel in \u003cem\u003eShroud\u003c\/em\u003e, the second novel in John Banville's Cleave Trilogy, alongside \u003cem\u003eEclipse\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAncient Light\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAxel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets—and carefully concealed identity—Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShroud\u003c\/em\u003e will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. 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