John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fourteen previous novels including The Sea , which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded the Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Dublin.
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea , which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN
New edition of a contemporary classic. "One of the most startling of the century's achievements in Irish writing" Seamus Deane. "A master of his craft" )Daily Telegraph(.
Alexander Cleave has left his acting career and family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but presences, ghostly and human, all conspire to distract him from his retirement.