{"product_id":"9781035076833","title":"Ghosts by John Banville","description":"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 BooksNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368476619125,"sku":"9781035076833","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035076833.jpg?v=1763549619","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781035076833","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}