John Banville

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books - 2 Series
  • First Book:
    June 1973
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford

1 - Snow (Oct-2020)
2 - April in Spain (Oct-2021)

The Revolutions Trilogy

Doctor Copernicus (1976)
The Newton Letter (Jul-1991)
Kepler (Oct-1993)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Birchwood

    Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. So...

  • Doctor Copernicus

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    Volume One of the Revolutions TrilogyBanville 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 is am...

  • Long Lankin: Stories

    A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotions -- fear, jealousy, desire -- that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple ...

  • The Book of Evidence

    Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: THE SEA, winner of the Man Booker prize, and THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE is a brilliantl...

  • Mefisto

    A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. From the author of ATHENA and BOOK OF EVIDENCE....

  • The Newton Letter

    An historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However, as the summer wears on, he becomes obsessed by his writing. By the author of "The Book of Ev...

  • Ghosts

    In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the grea...

  • Kepler

    In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Wars, witchcraft, and dis...

  • Athena

    From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. "A strange and dreamlike book . . . Banville has a breathtakin...



  • The Untouchable

    The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book . . . It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent' Richard Ford Vict...

  • Eclipse

    In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he can...

  • Frames

    This work includes the following works: "The Book of Evidence": Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master from a wealthy family friend, and he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act. This is a remarkable cri...

  • Shroud

    Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets â€" and carefully concealed identity â€" Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. Th...

  • The Sea

    In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the...

  • The Infinities

    On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals—...

  • Ancient Light

    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present liv...

  • Best European Fiction 2014

    Year five of the "Best European Fiction" series brings another crop of cutting-edge short stories from across the continent. From Belarus to Wales! Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolutionaries o...

  • The Blue Guitar

    A new novel -- at once trenchant, witty, and shattering -- about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprec...

  • Mrs. Osmond

    In Mrs. Osmond, John Banville continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charmi...



  • Snow

    The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel -- the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexf...

  • April in Spain

    Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast Don't disturb the dead… On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the b...

  • The Singularities

    From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.A man with a borro...

  • The Lock-Up

    Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found de...

Award-Winning Books by John Banville

The Sea
2005 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Banville has published 23 books.

The next book by John Banville, The Lock-Up, will be published in May 2023.

The first book by John Banville, Birchwood, was published in June 1973.

Yes. John Banville has 2 series.
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