{"product_id":"9781035076833","title":"Ghosts - John Banville","description":"\u003cp\u003eGhosts 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 BooksNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Banville","offers":[{"title":"256 pages \/ 12\/02\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56973159301495,"sku":"9781035076833","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781035076833.jpg?v=1780931328","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781035076833","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}