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Venetian Vespers
Banville, John (Author)
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A gem of period crime crossed with gothic horror.Sunday Times (Best crime fiction of 2025)Has the unmistakable touch of a master's hand. There are nods to Henry James and Thomas Mann in this ever-darkening fin de siècle tale of a self-centred English writer and his new American bride in a city as malevolent as it is mesmerizing [...] utterly absorbing: absurd, surreal and increasingly sinister. Banville fuses the intricate prose style familiar from his high art novels with the suspense and intrigue of his Benjamin Black crime stories. The result is a wonderfully unsettling conjunction of beaut...
ISBN (SKU)
9780571386673
Pages
368
Dimensions
198 x 129
Imprint
Faber & Faber
Published
22, October, 2026
Genres
Fiction
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