John Banville - Libros y biografía

‘Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose’ Sunday TimesAthena is the third in the Frames Trilogy, a set of loosely connected novels by the Booker Prize-winning author, John Banville. Morrow – a...

‘A beautiful, beguiling book full of resonances that continue to sound long after you’ve turned the final page. Its imagining is magical, its execution dazzlingly skilful.’ Sunday Tribune Ghosts opens...

‘Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do’ Irish TimesDark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the...

Is there a numerical solution to the quest for the meaning of life? A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme by Booker Prize-winning author John Banville, Mefisto focuses on the mathematically...

‘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 the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus...

'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' – Irish TimesThe third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning...

Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer.'Banville writes a dangerous...

Le livre qui a inspiré le film Marlowe, avec Liam Neeson et Diane Krüger dans les rôles principaux. Nous sommes au début des années 1950, Philip Marlowe est en petite forme, business et moral en berne,...

Le chef-d'œuvre de John Banville, couronné du prestigieux Prix Booker en 2005. Peu de temps après la mort de sa femme, Max revient dans la petite station balnéaire où, enfant, il a passé l'été qui...

" Neige sur Ballyglass House est certainement l'un des meilleurs romans noirs de John Banville, et l'un des meilleurs romans noirs jamais écrits. "The Globe and Mail Irlande, 1957. Après la découverte...

Oliver Orme, vous le savez sans doute, est un peintre dont le talent est reconnu dans le monde entier. Ce que vous ignorez encore, c'est qu'il a cessé de peindre, en proie à des doutes esthétiques. Et...

'If you're interested in Dublin, or if you're interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you're interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I'm all three - then Time Pieces: A Dublin...

En avant-première, découvrez les premiers chapitres des titres de la rentrée littéraire 2014 des éditions Robert Laffont : Littérature française Romain Slocombe, Avis à mon exécuteur Gonzague Tosseri,...