John Banville
21) Ghosts
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A group of strangers, passengers on a day-boat that runs aground, are washed up on an island. Shaken and sodden, they nonetheless make quick work of the situation at hand. But what is the situation? They've invaded the closely protected enclave of an eminent art historian, but their presence seems to rouse in the historian's assistant a long-ripening hunger for company. Certainly the grounding of the boat was an accident, but one of the passengers...
25) The mourner
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blackmailed into stealing a priceless French statue in the hands of Lepas Kapor, a Russian spy, Parker finds himself caught in a web involving the Mob, the Soviets, a two-timing blond, a double cross, and a competitor.
26) Albert Nobbs
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
27) How's the pain?
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Death is Simon's business. And now the aging vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected Veering from the...
28) Marlowe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light." --
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch. Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set in County Cork, Ireland, in 1920, the drama unfolds at Danielstown, the home of Anglo-Irish aristocrats Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra. As the war for Irish independence escalates around them, Sir Richard's nineteen-year-old niece, Lois, struggles with her longings for love and the yearning for freedom. She is being courted by a British Army captain who is deeply in love with her. But when she discovers an old childhood friend who...
31) Troubles
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland, to the Majestic Hotel and the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. So hypnotic are the faded charms of the Majestic, that the Major passes the summer there, almost unaware of the gathering storm in the Ireland of 1919.
