John Banville: 'I’m writing my autobiography, ... I have no favourite among my books – I can only give the time-worn answer: The next one. You turn 80 next year.

John Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. ... What was your favourite book as a child? Almost any one of the Just William series. As I recall, they were beautifully written.

The Lock-Up — John Banville at his best on facebook ... selects her favourite stories in this weekly ... full of small gems of description and detail that brought the world of the book alive.

Reading The Lock-up, his third as Banville, it’s clear that his crime books have become much closer to his literary ones. This book is a delight; full of atmosphere, imagery, and depth of character.

Best books of 2022: Top Irish authors share the books that had them enthralled and inspired. John Banville, Kit de Waal, Colm Tóibín, Louise Kennedy and eleven other leading writers on the books ...

John Banville’s “The Singularities” begins with a homecoming, a traveler’s return after a long absence. A man, allegedly named Felix Mordaunt, who has just been released from prison ...

“The Singularities” is a kind of sequel to “The Book of Evidence,” one of Banville’s best-known books, but it’s far more ambitiously referential. The Godkin family, from “Birchwood ...

THE DROWNED (Hanover Square Press, 299 pp., $28.99), Banville’s latest, returns readers to 1950s-era Ireland and to the mercurial pathologist Quirke and his frenemy, Detective Inspector Strafford.

John Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 “I assumed I would be writing just one crime book and decided I should write this under a pen name, simply to avoid the danger of my readers thinking ...

Born in 1946, John Banville is considered a master Irish novelist and won the prestigious Booker prize for his powerful novel about grief and remembrance, “The Sea,” in 2005. John ...