Synopsis
‘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
Ghosts opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the big isolated house which is home to the...
Details
19 August 2011256 pages
9780330523752Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
