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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...
April in Spain: The International Bestseller [2022] paperback
€3.99 – €5.99The sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 'Superb.' The Times'Utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail'A joy to read.' Sunday Times'The ultimate page-turner.' Irish IndependentOn the...
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: Venetian Vespers [2025] paperback
€15.99Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me.1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy...
John Banville: Venetian Vespers [2025] hardback
€19.99FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN'One of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANGEverything was a...
John Banville: The Revolutions Trilogy [2001] paperback
€6.99The work of Copernicus famously shattered the medieval view of the universe. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that tells of a shy man, baffled by the...
John Banville: The Drowned [2024] hardback
€24.70THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW. A CHILLING MUST-READ.'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.'...
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
€5.99 – €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...
Aleksandar Hemon: Best European Fiction 2013 [2013] paperback
€6.992013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt...
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
€7.99 – €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
€22.84 – €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 – €16.90'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...
