A Year With John Banville (2024)

A Year With John Banville | #JohnBanville2024

Irish writer John Banville was born in Wexford Town, in south-east Ireland, in 1945.

He has an extensive bibliography, which includes novels, short stories and screenplays. For a short period of time, he wrote crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black but now pens them under his own name.

He has won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize for The Sea (in 2005), and has long been a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

His long and fascinating Wikipedia entry is almost as entertaining as the fiction he writes!

In 2024 I am joining forces with Cathy from 746 Books to spend “A Year with John Banville“. Between the two of us, we think we can cover a good chunk of his writing over 12 months — and we’d love you to join in!

Our reading schedule

Cathy and I have devised a proposed reading schedule, and we will post our reviews in the last week of every month, between January and December 2024.

MONTH	CATHY	KIM
JAN	Birchwood	The Secret Guests (Benjamin Black)
FEB	The Newton Letter	Nightspawn
MAR	Christine Falls (Benjamin Black)	Birchwood
APR	Ghosts	Mephisto
MAY	Athena	The Book of Evidence
JUN	The Untouchables	Ghosts
JUL	Eclipse	Athena
AUG	A Death in Summer (Benjamin Black)	A Death in Summer (Benjamin Black)
SEP	The Infinities	Vengeance (Benjamin Black)
OCT	Mrs Osmond	Holy Orders (Benjamin Black)
NOV	The Sea	Even the Dead (Benjamin Black)
DEC	Snow	The Singularities

Feel free to follow our schedule as above, or read whatever John Banville (or Benjamin Black) novels you have to hand. If you decide to join in, whether on your own blog or social media accounts, please tag us both and use the hashtag #JohnBanville2024.

I will try to log all reviews from multiple sources here every month, so please keep visiting this page for updates.

Review round-up

I will post #JohnBanville2024 reviews by other bloggers here:

This page was last updated on 16 November 2023.