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John Banville Collection
Irish author and journalist John Banville, often known by the pen name Benjamin Black, was born in Wexford, Ireland, on December 8, 1945. His literature is renowned for being complicated, referential, and full of paradoxes. Loss, obsession and destructive love, are recurring themes in his work.
Banville studied at Wexford's St. Peter's College. He started out as a copy editor for the Irish Press in Dublin. (1969–83). Later, he worked at the Irish Times as a copy editor (1986–1988) and literary editor (1988–1999).
He has written eighteen books, including Snow, The Book of Evidence, The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the Quirke Series of crime thrillers. Among the notable awards he has also received are the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, and the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature.
Since the majority of John Banville's novels are stand-alone books, you can read his books in any sequence. However, because they contain recurring characters, it could be beneficial to read his crime fiction novels published under the pen name Benjamin Black in chronological sequence. "Christine Falls" is the first book in the series, and other titles include "The Silver Swan," "Elegy for April," and "A Death in Summer."
The order in which you read Banville's books ultimately depends on your individual tastes and interests as the majority of his novels are stand-alone.
Some other Irish writers such as Colm Toibin and Sebastian Barry have been compared to Banville in terms of their lyrical writing style with both writers worth exploring for Banville fans.
John Banville: Snow: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery [2021] paperback
€4.99 – €5.99'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.'Detective Inspector St John Strafford...
John Banville: The Sea [2024] paperback
€13.00'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory,...
John Banville: The Lock-up [2024] paperback
€6.99 – €13.00**THE DROWNED - THE CHILLING NEW STRAFFORD & QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Addictive.'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Hypnotic.'SUNDAY BUSINESS POST'Crime writing of the highest quality.'DAILY MAILThe Sunday Times bestselling author of...
John Banville: Doctor Copernicus [2010] paperback
€6.99'Banville is superb . . . there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and...
John Banville: Birchwood [2010] paperback
€6.99Told with lyrical prose, John Banville's Birchwood is the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets.Once the big house on an Irish estate,...
John Banville: Prague Pictures [2003] hardback
€5.99Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, 'devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art', who in the late 1500s summoned...
John Banville: The Sea [2005] paperback
€6.99 – €8.99Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and...
John Banville: The Book of Evidence [2010] paperback
€5.99Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive killer; an unreliable narrator with a dark story to tell.Freddie...
John (Author) Banville: Mrs Osmond [2017] hardback
€14.99A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A...
John Banville: Shroud [2002] hardback
€24.99Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades, he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy...
John Banville: The Drowned [2024] paperback
€15.99**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful, sometimes chilling prose.' FINANCIAL TIMESThe...
John (Author) Banville: Ancient Light [2012] hardback
€9.99 – €90.00A story of obsessive young love and the power of grief, Ancient Light is the best novel yet from the Booker Prize winner of The Sea'Billy Gray was my best...
John Banville: Ancient Light [2012] paperback
€5.99 – €6.99'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely...
John Banville: First Light [2009] paperback
€6.99 – €9.99John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. With elegance, insight and wit, he has secured a devoted readership and there can be few...
John Banville: Athena [2010] paperback
€6.99`Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose' Sunday Times Morrow - a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing - is at a loose...
John Banville: The Sea [2005] hardback
€9.99 – €14.99When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The...
Jim O'Donnell: Wordgloss [2006] paperback
€6.99 – €9.99Words and phrases are the common currency of our lives. We use them, exchange them, discard them, drawing on a wordhoard accumulated over thousands of years. But often we use...
John (Author) Banville: Mrs Osmond [2017] paperback
€5.99 – €18.56A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A...
John Banville: Eclipse [2010] paperback
€5.99 – €14.27The first of John Banville's novels concerning father and daughter Alexander and Cass Cleave, Eclipse is a lyrical exploration of memory, family and identity.Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career...
John Banville: Lock-Up The: A Strafford and Quirk [2023] hardback
€19.99**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Crime writing of the finest quality, elegant, distinctive and utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail'[The Strafford and Quirke series] promises to elevate the crime novel to new artistic heights.'...
Mihail Sebastian: Women [2020] paperback
€7.99 – €11.70A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where...
John Banville: SEA [2010] paperback
€5.99 – €13.00'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood...
