Shroud

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 407, [1]. Royal blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine; grey endpapers. Published concurrently with a specially bound limited issue of eighty copies by Joe McCann in conjunction with Picador.

Signed by Author to title-page.

The second volume in the Alexander and Cass Cleave Trilogy, preceded by Eclipse (2000), and concluded with Ancient Light (2012).

A scholar and born liar, the elderly but still contentious Axel Vander is about to have his cover blown when an equally contentious young woman enters his life. "In beautiful, lucid prose John Banville describes a tragedy so strongly rooted in history and character that, like all real tragedies, it could not happen otherwise." –The Times