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John Banville was born in Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. He lives in Dublin where he is at work on his latest novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery, Historical
New Books
Series
Novels
Nightspawn (1971)
Birchwood (1973)
Mefisto (1986)
The Broken Jug (1994)
The Untouchable (1997)
The Sea (2005)
The Infinities (2009)
Ancient Light (2012)
The Blue Guitar (2015)
Mrs Osmond (2017)
The Singularities (2022)
Birchwood (1973)
Mefisto (1986)
The Broken Jug (1994)
The Untouchable (1997)
The Sea (2005)
The Infinities (2009)
Ancient Light (2012)
The Blue Guitar (2015)
Mrs Osmond (2017)
The Singularities (2022)
Collections
Long Lankin (1970)
The Supreme Fictions of John Banville (1999)
The Revolutions Trilogy (2000)
Imagined Lives (2011) (with Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope and Minette Walters)
The Book of Evidence / The Sea (2015)
The Supreme Fictions of John Banville (1999)
The Revolutions Trilogy (2000)
Imagined Lives (2011) (with Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope and Minette Walters)
The Book of Evidence / The Sea (2015)
Chapbooks
Plays
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Awards
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John Banville recommends
Blood Meridian (1985)
Cormac McCarthy
"Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement."
A Landing On the Sun (1991)
Michael Frayn
"His work is as darkly ambiguous as that of Chekhov... and leaves one feeling an equal measure of laughter and sorrow."
Death and Nightingales (1992)
Eugene McCabe
"It should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists."
My House in Umbria (2003)
William Trevor
"Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today."
Inside (2006)
Kenneth J Harvey
"A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances."
The Informers (2008)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
"A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present, and an absorbing revelation of a little-known wing of the theatre of the Nazi war."
The Truth About Love (2009)
Josephine Hart
"An ambitious and poetic weaving of a long-ago family tragedy into the tragic history, and histories, of our time. Josephine Hart has come home in triumph."
Absolute Zero Cool (2011)
Declan Burke
"A genuinely original take on noir, inventive and funny, a cross between Flann O'Brien and Raymond Chandler."
Major / Minor (2011)
Alba Arikha
"A fiercely honest and compelling account of what it is to grow up in an artistic household."
The Twenty-Year Death (2012)
Ariel S Winter
"The Twenty-Year Death is a bravura debut, ingenious and assured, and a fitting tribute to the trio of illustrious ghosts who are looking – with indulgence, surely – over Ariel Winter’s shoulder."
The Effect of Her (2013)
Gerard Stembridge
"Extraordinarily vivid, knowing and satisfyingly irreverent."
The Glass Ocean (2013)
Lori Baker
"A captivating story-teller... has the flash and fire of molten glass."
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (2014)
Valerie Martin
"Wonderfully ingenious, compelling, convincing and exciting."
The Temporary Gentleman (2014)
(McNulty Family, book 3)
Sebastian Barry
"FASCINATING AND MOVING, [IT] SHOWS SEBASTIAN BARRY TO BE ONE OF OUR FINEST NOVELISTS-DARING, ACCOMODATING AND HUMANE."
The Weight of Him (2017)
Ethel Rohan
"Ethel Rohan shows herself to be one of those rare, courageous writers who dare to take on the 'ordinary' and show just how extraordinary it really is. The Weight of Him is a brave and moving book."
The Secret Books (2017)
Marcel Theroux
"The Secret Books, ingenious, stylish, at once sardonic and accommodating, is a meditation on our abiding need for stories, which itself has a gloriously entertaining story to tell."
Orchid & the Wasp (2018)
Caoilinn Hughes
"Orchid & the Wasp is an ambitious, richly inventive and highly entertaining account of the way we live now. Caoilinn Hughes writes with authority and insight, and her novel is as up-to-date as tomorrow's financial-page headlines."
The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings (2018)
John McGahern
"His is am immensely subtle and sophisticated art."
Mary B (2018)
Katherine J Chen
"In giving Mary Bennet a resonant voice of her own, Chen has fashioned a luminous and enlightening novel that will entrance even, or especially, those who have not read Jane Austen’s masterpiece."
My Coney Island Baby (2019)
Billy O'Callaghan
"Billy O'Callaghan's work is at once subtle and direct, warm and clear-eyed and never less than beautifully written. This writer is the real thing."
When All Is Said (2019)
Anne Griffin
"When All Is Said catches a world in a moment. Maurice Hannigan is a wonderful invention, whose bitter-sweet meditations will stay long in the reader's mind. Anne Griffin has fashioned a rare jewel."
The Bright Lands (2020)
John Fram
"John Fram's novel marks the debut of an already accomplished novelist. The Bright Lands is a dark tale luminously, and compellingly, told."
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