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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 · Sep 25, 2025

‘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 · Nov 30, 2024

‘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 · Nov 2, 2024

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 · Jun 25, 2023

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 · Mar 14, 2023

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 · Feb 15, 2023

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 · Jan 17, 2023

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 · Dec 4, 2022

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 · Nov 12, 2022

Review: 'The Singularities,' by John Banville

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

Tribune News Service · Oct 26, 2022