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John Banville (born December 1945) is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. His novel The Book of Evidence (1989) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He sometimes writes under the open pseudonym Benjamin Black.

Banville is known for his precise and cold prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. His stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has".

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Total Books: 237
Marlowe
2023 - Marlowe [Philip Marlowe Series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781250906908
ISBN-10: 1250906903
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Snow
2020 - Snow [St. John Strafford, Bk 2] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781335230003
ISBN-10: 1335230009
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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The Silver Swan
2009 - The Silver Swan [Quirke, Bk 2] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780312428242
ISBN-10: 0312428243
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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