Ghosts

John Banville's Ghosts is an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace, now part of the Picador Collection.

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 – 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.

‘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’ – The 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’ – The London Review of Books

Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

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