John Banville

Venetian Vespers

By John Banville - Published 2025

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Venice, 1899: Evelyn Dolman and Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon, travel to Venice for their lengthy but delayed honeymoon. In the ...Read Review

The Drowned: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery

By John Banville - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

County Wicklow, 1950s: in a field near the coast, the reclusive Denton Wymes finds a flashily expensive car with its engine running, the ...Read Review

Snow

By John Banville - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Snow: cold, soft, brilliantly blinding. It muffles sound and casts a thick shroud over whatever lies beneath. The symbolism is apropos in Banville’...Read Review

Mrs. Osmond

By John Banville - Published 2017

Genres:

Literary

Isabel Osmond (née Archer) has disobeyed her husband, Gilbert, and left Rome to visit her dying cousin in England. After the funeral, ...Read Review