For Adults
Faber are offering 5 lucky reading groups the chance to win a set of up to 10 finished copies each of Venetian Vespers , an eerie, Venice-set novel from the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author John Banville.
To enter, please contact phoebe.williams@faber.co.uk and let us know why you think your group would enjoy reading Songlight. The deadline for applications is 30 September. For a taster of the reading experience, please download the chapter sampler provided.
If you’re successful, we’d love to hear what your group thinks about the book and for you to share your reviews on key retailer sites.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Winter 1900, and strange things are afoot. As the new century dawns, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman and his bride, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat, travel to Venice for their belated honeymoon.
On their arrival at Palazzo Dioscuri – the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo – the couple are met by a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences, exacerbating Evelyn’s already frayed nerves. Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?
‘Banville has a knack for creating compellingly awful narrators.’ THE TIMES
‘An enormous pleasure to read. It creates a perfect, haunting balance of romance and revulsion’ BRIDGET COLLINS
‘A gem of period crime crossed with gothic horror.’ SUNDAY TIMES
