Venetian Vespers: 'Wickedly entertaining' IRISH TIMES

John Banville

Venetian Vespers: 'Wickedly entertaining' IRISH TIMES

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A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR, SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEA

Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . .
Winter 1899, and strange things are afoot. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a rift between Laura and her father, Evelyn's plans for a substantial inheritance look to be dashed.

Arriving in Venice for their belated honeymoon at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - the couple are met by a series of seemingly
otherworldly occurrences, which exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves. Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?

'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN
'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' DON DeLILLO
'The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.' IRISH TIMES
'One of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG
'Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance.' NEW YORK TIMES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Banville

William John Banville is the multi-award winning Irish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter from Wexford in Ireland.

He is known for his highly stylistic, philosophical literary fiction and historical novels, often focusing on memory, perception, and the nature of art. His was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in both 1989 with The Book of Evidence and again in 2005 with The Sea. In 2011, Banville was named the winner of the extremely prestigious Kafka Prize.

He also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, most of which feature the character of Quirke, an Irish pathologist based in 1950s Dublin. Banville continues to write and lives in Howth Dublin.

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