The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Norway

Region is based on IP address

  1. Home
  2. Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
  1. Home
  2. Genres
  3. Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Ancient light

Paperback • 2012 • English • 1. edition

Ancient light

By John Banville

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny mornings, rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's sui...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780670920624

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Ancient light

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

You might also like

The Bright Years

The Bright Years

Damoff, Sarah

Love

Love

Roddy Doyle

Strange Flowers

Strange Flowers

Donal Ryan

Exciting Times

Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan

The secret hours

The secret hours

Santa Montefiore

Cal

Cal

Bernard MacLaverty

Night boat to Tangier

Night boat to Tangier

Kevin Barry

Enigma variations

Enigma variations

André Aciman

The children act

The children act

Ian McEwan

When light is like water

When light is like water

Sense of an ending

Sense of an ending

Julian Barnes

Nothing but the night

Nothing but the night

John Williams

The girl on the cliff

The girl on the cliff

Lucinda Riley

The gypsy madonna

The gypsy madonna

Santa Montefiore

The light between oceans

The light between oceans

M.L. Stedman

Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Colm Tóibín

The lie

The lie

Helen Dunmore

Secrets of the Lighthouse

Secrets of the Lighthouse

Santa Montefiore

Transatlantic

Transatlantic

Colum McCann

This is how it ends

This is how it ends

A possible life

A possible life

Sebastian Faulks

The spinning heart

The spinning heart

Donal Ryan

The book of summers

The book of summers

Emylia Hall

Love always

Love always

Lights out in wonderland

Lights out in wonderland

D.B.C. Pierre

Friends, lovers and other indiscretions

Friends, lovers and other indiscretions

Fiona Neill

The Empty Family Stories

The Empty Family Stories

Colm Tóibín

Darkmans

Darkmans

Nicola Barker

The secret scripture

The secret scripture

Sebastian Barry

Everything is illuminated

Everything is illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

The sea

The sea

John Banville

Light on sno

Light on sno

Anita Shreve

The Blackwater Lightship

The Blackwater Lightship

Colm Tóibín

The Newton Letter

The Newton Letter

John Banville

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

Charming Billy

Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

Reading in the dark

Reading in the dark

Seamus Deane

Light a penny candle

Light a penny candle

Maeve Binchy