John Banville, Author . Knopf $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-41130-4
Alex Vander is a fraud, big-time. An elderly professor of literature and a scholarly writer with an international reputation, he has neither the education nor the petit bourgeois family in Antwerp that he has claimed. As the splenetic narrator of...
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John Banville, Author . Knopf $23 (195p) ISBN 978-0-307-26311-7
Banville's magnificent new novel, which won this year's Man Booker Prize and is being rushed into print by Knopf, presents a man mourning his wife's recent death—and his blighted life. "The past beats inside me like a second...
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John Banville, Author . Knopf $25.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-307-27279-9
Having apparently exorcised his taste for bloody intrigue with his pseudonym, Benjamin Black, Banville returns to high form (and his given name) with a novel even more pristine than his Booker-winning The Sea
. Old Adam Godley lies dying, flying...
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John Banville, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-73799-5
These unusually fine biographical novels vivify Copernicus, the man who reshaped the medieval world view, and 16th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, whose science was a means to pursue the nature of God. (Oct.)
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John Banville, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-75512-8
The narrator of this lyrical novel by the author of The Book of Evidence banishes himself to a deserted island inhabited by two other castaways. (Nov.)
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John Banville, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-73685-1
Irish novelist Banville offers a literary thriller in which his guilt-plagued narrator is drawn into both an art theft and a passionate affair with a mysterious woman. (June)
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John Banville, Author Warner Books $8.99 (219p) ISBN 978-0-446-39253-2
A former scientist who pointlessly murdered a woman during a robbery attempt describes his amoral, aimless life as he awaits trial. ``Banville's style, which is spare yet richly eloquent, and his extraordinary psychological penetration, are what...
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John Banville, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-45108-2
Banville (The Book of Evidence; Athena; Ghosts) has always been a highly stylish writer whose prose is almost tactile in its loving delineation of lights and weathers. He sees as an artist does, but the actual structures on which his thrillingly...
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John Banville, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19180-5
Comparisons with Camus's The Stranger and Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment are not lightly made, but spring irresistibly to mind after finishing Banville's dazzling novel, which was short-listed for Britain's Booker Award and won Ireland's very...
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John Banville, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (232p) ISBN 978-0-679-40521-4
While beautifully written and filled with intriguing questions about the nature of truth and the reliability of memory, Banville's new novel is neither as emotionally compelling as The Book of Evidence nor as stylistically challenging as Ghosts,...
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John Banville, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-41129-8
Irish author Banville (The Book of Evidence; The Untouchable) is one of the most seductive writers currently at work. His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases
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John Banville. Knopf, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-35426-4
Readers will hang on to every word written by Man Booker Prize winner Banville (Ancient Light), because he knows their thoughts before they do. Narrating this tale is the curmudgeonly, melancholy, and hapless Olly Orme, who, "pushing fifty and [feeli
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Benjamin Black, Author, John Banville, Author, Timothy Dalton, Read by , read by Timothy Dalton. Macmillan Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0289-5
Black is better known as the Booker Prize–winning author John Banville. Timothy Dalton is better known as the guy who used to play James Bond. Their collaboration on this mystery novel, the second in Black's Quirke series, offers an...
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Benjamin Black, Author, John Banville, Author, Miguel Martinez-Lage, Translator Alfaguara $24.99 (360p) ISBN 978-987-04-1054-6
Black, the pen name of Booker Prize-winning author John Banville (The Sea), [offers his] second atmospheric crime novel starring Quirke, a 1950s Dublin pathologist and unlikely hero. This novel opens with the death of a young woman, the owner of a...
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John Banville. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-95705-4
In Man Booker Prize-winner Banville's 16th novel, the Irish author reprises the character of Alex Cleave, who first appeared in 2000's Eclipse, and then two years later in Shroud. Cleave, a has-been theater actor, reminisces about his 15th summer, "h
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John Banville. Vintage, $12.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-345-80706-9
Two boys hide out in the woods, a girl meets a mysterious man on a bicycle, and siblings sneak down to the sea to look at a dead body in this slim collection of early stories from Banville (Booker Prize winner for The Sea). Nearly every story...
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John Banville. Knopf, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-49342-2
Banville’s sequel to Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady is a delightful tour de force that channels James with ease. The rich and measured prose style is quintessentially Jamesian: the long interior monologues perfectly capture the hum of human...
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John Banville, photos by Paul Joyce. Knopf, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3283-7
In this subtle, elegant memoir, Irish novelist and screenwriter Banville (Mrs. Osmond) explores three overlapping Dublins: the contemporary city, the city of history, and the city he remembers. Despite spending centuries as a provincial backwater in
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John Banville. Hanover Square, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-335-47140-6
Banville’s slow-moving eighth crime thriller featuring Irish pathologist Quirke (after 2015’s Even the Dead) finds Quirke and his wife, Evelyn, vacationing in San Sebastián, Spain. When the couple forget to buy an oyster-opening tool, Quirke tries...
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John Banville. Knopf, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-65517-6
Booker winner Banville (The Sea) revisits characters and themes from his past works in this artful and atmospheric story of redemption. Recently released from prison, a murderer now calling himself Felix Mordaunt returns to Arden House, the estate...
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John Banville. Hanover Square, $27.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-335230-00-3
Affecting prose and depth of characterization largely compensate for the predictable plot of this whodunit set in 1957 Ireland from Booker Prize winner Banville (The Secret Guests). One snowy day, Det. Insp. St. John Strafford arrives at the house...
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