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Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon

This brooding tale of an Englishman’s downfall in fin-de-siècle Venice is memorably eerie – but it’s hard to care about such a pompous protagonist

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m writing a memoir. It’s a pack of lies’: John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words

The acclaimed novelist thought he had finished with ‘serious’ books. But now, at 78 and still grieving the loss of his wife, he has a new project on the go

The Guardian - UK

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence

The Independent UK

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The Drowned by John Banville review – death and drizzle in 50s Ireland

Tight-lipped humour thrums through the latest in the Booker winner’s Strafford and Quirke crime series, which centres on a university professor and his missing wife

The Guardian - UK

Jon Cruddas: ‘Labour has to rediscover its moral purpose’

The Labour MP and party historian on why he worries for Keir Starmer, the decline of social democracy, and his love of Seamus Heaney

The Guardian - UK

Interpreters are wizards – at times they seem to have read my mind. AI could never compete

They can take another’s words and sentences and reshape them, on the instant, transforming my stammered-over words into sublimities, says novelist John Banville

The Guardian - UK

A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell review – evil in a bow tie

A remarkable meditation on the murder case that rocked 1980s Ireland

The Guardian - UK

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A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell review – a masterpiece of murkiness

The author’s account of the 1982 Dublin murders committed by the wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur deals dazzlingly in moral complexities

The Guardian - UK

Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye

Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark

The Guardian - UK

Movie review: 'Marlowe' a tepid take on classic noir

“Marlowe” is an adaptation of the 2014 book “The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel” by Irish novelist and Booker Award winner John Banville (“Doctor Copernicus”), writing as his pseudonymous other self Benjamin Black. It is a detective story set in 1939 Los Angeles, featuring Raymond Chandler’s immortal modern-day knight…

Boston Herald

Marlowe: First look at new crime thriller starring Liam Neeson as private detective

The film is based on the 2014 novel 'The Black-Eyed Blonde' by John Banville

Belfast Live

The Singularities by John Banville review – theoretical physics meets playful storytelling

The author’s vividly realised new novel uses a country house setting to explore scientific puzzles and the nature of reality

The Guardian - UK

John Banville: ‘There’s been a creeping retreat into infantilism’

The Booker prize winner on why revisiting his books makes him sick, killing off his crime-writing pseudonym, and the new wave of Irish novelists

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'The Singularities,' by John Banville

FICTION: A bold, mind-bending novel in which a mystery man lodges with an idiosyncratic family.

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