Synopsis
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,...
Details
05 February 2026256 pages
9781035076833Imprint: 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
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
