His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases Benjamin Black, Author, John Banville, Author, Timothy Dalton ...

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John Banville is a novelist. His most recent book is The Lock-Up (Faber & Faber). In Napoleon Symphony, the life of the French statesman was transformed into a virtuoso romp that still dazzles 50 ...

By John Banville Many a soul has perished at what the critic Lionel ... and is treated as such. The author of the essay collection Those Passions, TJ Clark, is one of the most intelligent, perceptive ...