The Book of Evidence

Remarkable … If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre – Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford seriesThe Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people’s souls – Don DeLillo, author of Underworld, Cosmopolis and Mao IIBanville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita * The Observer *One of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction * London Review of Books *

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.