NPR: 'Even the Dead' wraps up John Banville's smart, moody mystery series
The Boston Globe: John Banville returns in fine, brooding form in ‘The Drowned’
Graham Greene famously categorized his pacier, pulpier novels as “entertainments.” For years, the Irish writer John Banville had a different way of distinguishing between the two types of books he ...
John Banville claims to be writing a memoir. It would be a change of pace for the many fans of Banville’s fiction who are only now starting his latest novel, The Drowned, which came out just last ...
In this expertly paced debut thriller from Irish author Black (the pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville), pathologist Garret Quirke uncovers a web of ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org: 'Even the Dead' wraps up John Banville's smart, moody mystery series
Originally published under a pseudonym, Banville's Quirke mystery series follows a troubled Dublin coroner who dwells in the basement morgue of a... 'Even the Dead' wraps up John Banville's smart, ...
In “April in Spain,” written by Irish author John Banville and set in the 1950s, the gloomy Dublin state pathologist known only as Quirke finds himself on holiday, with his psychiatrist wife, in the ...
MSN: Venetian Vespers by John Banville: haunting and atmospheric – book review –
Venetian Vespers by John Banville: haunting and atmospheric – book review –
“The appeal of the conventional crime novel,” the Irish writer John Banville once suggested, “is the sense of completion it offers.” Unlike life, bounded by the unremembered and—strictly ...