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One of my favourite living Irish writers is John Banville, where you can just hang on one of his paragraphs for a long time.” There are no owls in the adaptation, he warns.

Wexford-born John Banville is a philosophical novelist concerned with the nature of perception, the conflict between imagination and reality, and how we navigate the world as individuals.