About John Banville
John Banville was born in Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, The Newton Letter, Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize), Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable and Eclipse. He lives in Dublin where he is at work on his latest novel, Shroud.
Series
Revolutions Trilogy
1. Doctor Copernicus (1976)
2. Kepler (1981)
3. The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982)
1. Doctor Copernicus (1976)
2. Kepler (1981)
3. The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982)
Novels
Nightspawn (1971)
Birchwood (1973)
Mefisto (1986)
The Book of Evidence (1989)
Ghosts (1993)
The Broken Jug: After Kleist (1994)
Athena (1995)
The Untouchable (1997)
Eclipse (2000)
Shroud (2002)
The Sea (2005)
The Infinities (2009)
Ancient Light (2012)
Birchwood (1973)
Mefisto (1986)
The Book of Evidence (1989)
Ghosts (1993)
The Broken Jug: After Kleist (1994)
Athena (1995)
The Untouchable (1997)
Eclipse (2000)
Shroud (2002)
The Sea (2005)
The Infinities (2009)
Ancient Light (2012)
Collections
Long Lankin (1970)
The Supreme Fictions of John Banville (1999)
The Revolutions Trilogy (2000)
Frames Trilogy 1 (2001)
Frames Trilogy 2 (2001)
Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People (2011) (with Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope and Minette Walters)
The Supreme Fictions of John Banville (1999)
The Revolutions Trilogy (2000)
Frames Trilogy 1 (2001)
Frames Trilogy 2 (2001)
Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People (2011) (with Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sarah Singleton, Joanna Trollope and Minette Walters)
Chapbooks
Plays
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Awards
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John Banville recommends
 Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (1985) Cormac McCarthy "Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement." |  A Landing On the Sun (1991) Michael Frayn "His work is as darkly ambiguous as that of Chekhov... and leaves one feeling an equal measure of laughter and sorrow." |  Death and Nightingales (1992) Eugene McCabe "It should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists." | |
 Banks of Green Willow (2001) Kevin Myers "As fresh as tomorrow's headlines; Kevin Myers has painted a moving and accurate portrait of our terrible age." |  My House in Umbria (2003) William Trevor "Trevor's is among the most subtle and sophisticated fiction being written today." |  The Two Lolitas (2005) Michael Maar "Michael Maar is a fine literary sleuth, and his discovery of what may be an ur-Lolita means we will never again look on Nabokov's masterpeice in quite the old light." | |
 Inside (2006) Kenneth J Harvey "A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances." |  The Informers (2008) Juan Gabriel Vásquez "A fine and frightening study of how the past preys upon the present, and an absorbing revelation of a little-known wing of the theatre of the Nazi war." |  The Truth About Love (2009) Josephine Hart "An ambitious and poetic weaving of a long-ago family tragedy into the tragic history, and histories, of our time. Josephine Hart has come home in triumph." | |
 What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Novel of Henry James and Jack the Ripper (2010) Paula Marantz Cohen "A marvelously rich and intelligent read..." |  Absolute Zero Cool (2011) Declan Burke "A genuinely original take on noir, inventive and funny, a cross between Flann O'Brien and Raymond Chandler." |
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