John Banville
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
Anthony Quinn
29, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM
'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
Aaron Walawalkar
12, Oct, 2019 @2:01 PM
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
Alison Flood and Sian Cain
28, Jan, 2019 @4:59 PM
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
Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson, Anne Enright, Peter Carey, Marlon James Pat Barker, John Banville, Penelope Lively, Ben Okri and DBC Pierre
30, Jun, 2018 @8:00 AM
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
Lara Feigel
14, Apr, 2018 @3:00 PM
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
Sian Cain
28, Mar, 2018 @5:00 AM
Would Wetherspoons sponsor a drunk tank? | Brief letters
Brief letters: Matthew d’Ancona | Border Force volunteers | Drunk tanks | John Banville | Starwatch
Letters
01, Jan, 2018 @5:27 PM
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
John Banville
29, Dec, 2017 @10:00 AM
‘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
21, Oct, 2017 @10:00 AM
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
Edmund White
14, Oct, 2017 @6:30 AM
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
Tim Adams
01, Oct, 2017 @6:30 AM
The Neil Jordan series that isn’t: film-maker disowns Riviera
Millions have viewed or downloaded the drama, but director says his ‘darker’ version was reworked by others
Nadine O'Regan and Vanessa Thorpe
24, Jun, 2017 @11:05 PM
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