Benjamin Black Libros Populares
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John Banville (Wexford, Irlanda, 8 de diciembre de 1945) es un novelista irlandés, ganador del Premio Booker en 2005. Las obras que publica del género de novela negra las firma bajo el pseudónimo de Benjamin Black. Biografía Desde muy joven —12 años— supo que quería ser escritor. Estudió en una escuela de los Hermanos Cristianos y en el colegio católico de San Pedro de Wexford.[1] En lugar de ingresar en la universidad, prefirió comenzar a trabajar y lo hizo en la compañía aérea Aer Lingus, que le permitía viajar por el mundo. Más tarde diría irónicamente de esta decisión: "Un gran error. Debería haber ido [a la universidad]. Lamento no haber tomado esos cuatro años de emborracharse y enamorarse. Pero quería irme de mi familia. Quería ser libre".[2] Cuando regresó a Irlanda después de haber vivido en Estados Unidos en 1968 y 1969, se convirtió en periodista y entró a trabajar en el diario The Irish Press, donde llegó a ser subeditor jefe. Cuando este periódico desapareció en 1995, pasó al The Irish Times. Es colaborador habitual de The New York Review of Books. Publicó su primer libro en 1970, una recopilación de relatos titulada Long Lankin, a la que seguiría una serie de novelas, la primera de ellas Nightspawn que salió al año siguiente. Después vinieron Birchwood (1973), la llamada Trilogía de las revoluciones —compuesta por Copérnico (1976), Kepler (1981) y La carta de Newton (1982)— y cerca de una docena de novelas más, entre las que destacan El libro de las pruebas (1989), finalista del Premio Booker) y El mar (2005), que ganó el preciado galardón. Banville es conocido por el estilo preciso de su prosa. Su ingenio y su humor negro muestran la influencia de Nabokov. En 2006 aparece el primer libro de Benjamin Black: El secreto de Christine, a la que le han seguido otras muchas novelas negras. Sobre su desdoblamiento como escritor, ha dicho: "El arte es una cosa extraña. Bajo el sombrero de Banville puedo escribir 200 palabras al día. Un día decidí que podía convertirme en otro y bajo ese segundo sombrero, en esa segunda piel, puedo irme a comer tras haber escrito un millar de palabras, tal vez 2.000, y disfrutar con ello. Es increíble descubrir cómo otro tipo puede vivir tu vida y usar tus manos y deleitarse con eso. Escribir es un trabajo peculiar... Escribir es como respirar. Lo hago por necesidad. Por mi propia boca, y ahora también por la de Black".[3] Obras Novelas como John Banville Novelas como Benjamin Black[5] Premios y honores 1976 - Premio James Tait Black Memorial por Copérnico 1981 - Premio Guardian ficción por Kepler Premio Allied Irish Bank Fiction por Kepler Premio American-Irish Foundation por Birchwood 1989 - Premio Guinness Peat Aviation por El libro de las pruebas Finalista del Premio Booker 1989 por El libro de las pruebas 2003 - Premio Nonino a toda su obra (Italia) 2005 - Premio Booker por El mar 2006 - Premio Irish Book a la mejor novela del año por El mar 2007 - Miembro de número de la Royal Society of Literature Premio Madeleine Zepter 2009 - Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society 2011 - Premio Franz Kafka 2013 - Premio Leteo 2013 - Premio Austriaco de Literatura Europea 2014 - Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras[6] 2017 - Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca Referencias Enlaces externos «En la selva oscura de la existencia», artículo de Claudio Magris en el suplemento cultural Babelia de El País, 08.03.2003; acceso 23.10.2011 John Banville en Canal-L, de Barcelona: "Deberíamos volver a ser paganos" Imposturas, de John Banville, reseña de Nicolás Cabral, Letras Libres, mayo de 2005; acceso 23.10.2011. Descubre los libros populares de Benjamin Black. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Benjamin Black
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Black in Time
Alison Hammond & E. L. NorryHiya! Alison Hammond here! I love getting to know all about different people and I'll tell you a secret . . . sometimes people we don't know much about are the most interesting of ...
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Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society
William Oldfield & Victoria BruceThe “fascinating…greatgrandson’s account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the US postal inspector who brought to justice the deadly Black Hand is “unputdownable” (Library Journal, sta...
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
Andrea Davis PinkneyThroughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Indepen...
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Gold Diggers
Sanjena SathianSOON TO BE A MINDY KALING TV SERIES A Book of the Month pick by CNN, Bustle, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly and Vox One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 Long...
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The Anatomy School
Bernard MacLavertyThis is the story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy who knows all the questions but none of the answers. This is Belfast in the late sixt...
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Invisible Generals
Doug MelvilleThe amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airme...
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Rising from the Rails
Larry Tye"A valuable window into a longunderreported dimension of African American history."NewsdayAn engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the st...
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Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens & Andrew Sanders'There's no writing against such power as this one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores t...
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The City in Darkness
Michael RussellAn evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective ...
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Skin Deep
Liz Nugent'Pure genius. Absolutely brilliant' Shari Lapena'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith' Ian Rankin IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018 From the No 1 bes...
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Natives
AkalaRADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'Thi...
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Wahala
Nikki MaySOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIESWINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT NEWCOMER AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD '"WAHALA" means trouble and there's plenty of ...
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OMG Posters
Mitch PutnamTHE ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF GIG POSTERS FROM TODAY’S TOP ROCK AND INDIE BANDSLaunched in 2007, OMGPosters.com has become one of the world’s favorite art blogs, showcasing thousands ...
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Kingpin
Richard StrattonThis fastpaced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.Captured in the l...
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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Ludmilla PetrushevskayaIn these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, illfated holiday romances, office try...
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La sustancia del mal
Luca D'AndreaEl thriller literario del año.No devorarás este libro: este libro te devorará a ti.En 1985, durante una terrible tormenta, tres jóvenes son brutalmente asesinados en el Bletterbach...
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That Reminds Me
Derek OwusuWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020'A singular achievement.'Michael Donkor, Guardian'Heartbreaking, important and original.' Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDN...
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay DolinWith surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and highseas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventurehungry” (Peter Lewis, San Franc...
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The Flying Circus
Susan CrandallThe awardwinning, national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a ...
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Bryant and May Off the Rails (Bryant and May 8)
Christopher FowlerThey've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before . . . Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man ca...
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Black Teacher
Beryl GilroyThe rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in postwar London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away sh...
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Uncommon Wealth
Kojo KoramShortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arrange...
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Prince of Darkness
Shane WhiteIn the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a wellknown figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingl...
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Star Trek: Voyager: The Black Shore
Greg CoxAfter weeks of lonely journeys through a desolate region fo the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager is badly in need of shore leave, so the planet Ryolanov seems just what the doct...
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Literature and Evil
Georges Bataille & Alastair Hamilton'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil ...
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All is Song
Samantha HarveyLeonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learn...
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Susan CrandallFrom an awardwinning author comes a wise and tender comingofage story about a nineyearold girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering l...
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The 39 Clues Book 5: The Black Circle
Patrick CarmanThe highly anticipated Book Five of the #1 bestselling The 39 Clues series.A strange telegram lures fourteenyearold Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, deep into Russia and aw...
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Mantissa
John FowlesMiles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely...
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The Fight for Equal Opportunity: Blacks in America
Willie JacksonThe book is a history of AfricanAmerican leadership in modern times, with special focus on two magnetic and essential figures in the struggle for racial equality: General Benjamin ...
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Black Bears of Independence: Benjamin
K R HallTrauma and DiscoverySabrina Bryant stopped shifting when she was only ten. A traumatic incident that she can't remember and is helpless to do anything to change so she can shift. A...
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The Suicide Club
Rhys ThomasCraig BartlettTaylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a reallife ...
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El secreto de Christine (Quirke 1)
Benjamin BlackLa primera novela de John Banville como Benjamin Black.«Banville puede haber intercambiado la novela literaria por el crimen, pero no ha dejado de escribir con elegancia y belleza,...
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Part of a Story That Started Before Me
George the Poet"This is an anthology to contemplate, revisit and relish" LoveReading4Kids'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' George the PoetPart of a Story That St...
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin ZephaniahBBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his ...
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America's-Black-Founding-Fathers: The American Faith Of Benjamin Franklin
Lavona BrodersonFor anyone interested in Ben Franklin's thoughts on Christianity, Bill Fortenberry has assembled most, if not all of Franklin's thoughts on the subject, with detailed analy...
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Such Good Friends
Stephen Greco“Fans of Capote and the era of Camelot should be delighted.” Shana Abé, New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor A mustread for fans of Truman Capote and Ja...
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April in Spain
John Banville'Deeply atmospheric.'MICK HERRON'A joy to read.'SUNDAY TIMES'The ultimate pageturner.'IRISH INDEPENDENTThe sumptuous, propulsive, sunkissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from ...
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Surge
Jay BernardWinner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year AwardJay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a hou...
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Benjamin Franklin in London
George Goodwin'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made hi...
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An Apology for Idlers
Robert Louis StevensonAn irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and sem...
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Black England
Gretchen Gerzina'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history start...
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Business Adventures
John Brooks'The best business book I've ever read.' Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal'The Michael Lewis of his day.' New York TimesWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as ...
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Black History Matters
Robin WalkerAn important and hardhitting chronicle of Black history, written by a celebrated Black historian. Winner of the 2020 School & Library Association prize for readers aged 1316 an...
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Laura
Vera CasparyIn the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a beautiful young woman lies dead, her face disfigured ...
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The City Underground
Michael RussellIreland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gille...
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Snow
John BanvilleTHE LOCKUP A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR PREORDER'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is cr...
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Tod im Sommer
Benjamin BlackEin atmosphärisch dichter Krimi aus dem Dublin der 50erJahreDer sagenhaft reiche Zeitungsverleger Richard Jewell wird tot mit einer Schrotflinte in seinen blutigen Händen am Schrei...
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Gone
Helena EchlinDutiful and studious, Elizabeth has never been the rebel in her family. Now, in an attempt to bury her old self, she has moved to the deserts of the American Southwest to live in a...
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Odd One Out
Nic StoneFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin comes a story of finding your place in the world. When it comes to love, attraction and relationships, n...