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John Banville

June 2023

  • Richard Ford

    Richard Ford: ‘I just make up shit to worry about at 3am’

    The Pulitzer-winning US author on his fifth and final Frank Bascombe novel, why Donald Trump won’t get re-elected, his country’s gun culture and the death of his friend Martin Amis

March 2023

  • Liam Neeson as Philip Marlowe.

    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

December 2022

  • Bantry House in County Cork

    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

November 2022

  • Florence Court<br>A pillar supports the unusual ceiling in the kitchen of Florence Court, County Fermanagh, 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    The Singularities by John Banville review – inside a murderer’s underworld

  • John Banville<br>Howth, Dublin 24/10/2022 John Banville © Patrick Bolger

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

December 2021

  • Daniel Craig in a scene from No Time To Die.

    James Bond: acclaimed writers explain how they would reinvent 007

    Producer Barbara Broccoli has not yet decided how Bond will return in the next film – but here are some ideas

October 2021

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    The month’s best paperbacks: Don DeLillo, a Malcolm X biography and more

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September 2021

  • Alan Johnson:

    Books that made me
    Alan Johnson: ‘I read Animal Farm at 14 and it changed my life’

    The author and former home secretary on disliking Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and his fondness for PG Wodehouse

January 2020

  • Elizabeth, standing, Margaret, right, and their parents at Windsor Castle in 1942.

    The Secret Guests by BW Black review – John Banville’s royal yarn

    From Banville’s alter ego, a novel about the young Windsors being evacuated to Ireland during the second world war

October 2019

  • Author John Banville believes the Swedish Academy rather than him personally to be the hoax’s true target.

    'Don't buy the champagne': Booker prize winner targeted by phone hoax

    Irish author John Banville received deceitful phone call telling him he had won the Nobel prize in literature

January 2019

  • Guests at the 2012 Man Booker prizegiving ceremony at the Guildhall in London.

    No more Americans? What a new sponsor could mean for the Man Booker prize

    Hedge fund’s departure as £1.6m backer of the UK’s leading fiction award has prompted feverish speculation about the prize’s future

June 2018

  • Clockwise from top left: Hilary Mantel, Marlon James, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood and Julian Barnes.

    What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more

    As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world

April 2018

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    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which male authors excel at writing female characters?

    From Tolstoy to John Banville, our expert suggests the men who can write from a woman’s perspective

March 2018

  • The 2009 Man Booker prize ceremony at London’s Guildhall.

    Top authors make mass call on Man Booker to drop American writers

    Folio Academy members have overwhelmingly said prize should be closed to US novelists

January 2018

  • A man drinking alcohol

    Brief letters
    Would Wetherspoons sponsor a drunk tank?

    Brief letters: Matthew d’Ancona | Border Force volunteers | Drunk tanks | John Banville | Starwatch

December 2017

  • John Banville

    Books that made me
    John Banville: ‘The Catechism had all the answers. If only it were all true’

    The novelist and screenwriter on Beckett, Nabokov and failing to finish a single one of the novels of Jane Austen

October 2017

  • The Portrait of a Lady film still

    ‘Who wrote Mrs Osmond?’ – John Banville on writing a sequel to The Portrait of a Lady

    ‘It did seem that I might be a character in one of the Master’s tales of the uncanny’ … the author recounts how his follow-up to Henry James’s classic came into being
  • John Banville

    Book of the day
    Mrs Osmond by John Banville review – superb Henry James pastiche

    This cunning sequel to The Portrait of a Lady is a remarkable novel in its own right
  • John Banville is fully in stylistic character, but tips readers the hint of a knowing wink.

    Mrs Osmond by John Banville – what Isabel Archer did next

    John Banville’s masterly ‘sequel’ to Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady reveals what became of his soul-searching heroine
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