John Banville bibliography

John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. He has won the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature; has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; knighted by Italy; is one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.

As well as his novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, Banville has published book reviews and other articles, and written introductions for the neglected short stories of women such as Elizabeth Bowen and Edna O'Brien. A partial bibliography may be found here; it is particularly helpful for locating the original publisher of Banville's books and it also verifies the year of publication of each. However, discrepancies remain between that bibliography and this one on the drama adaptations and original screenplays — for example, that bibliography calls the 1994 screenplay "Seachange", while the IMDb calls a screenplay from the same year by the title "Seascape". The above bibliography does not include Banville's book reviews, nor does it include his articles for various newspapers and magazine publications. A sample of these may be found below.

Novels

 * Nightspawn. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971
 * Birchwood. London: Secker & Warburg, 1973
 * The Revolutions Trilogy :
 * Doctor Copernicus. London: Secker & Warburg, 1976
 * Kepler. London: Secker & Warburg, 1981
 * The Newton Letter. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982


 * Mefisto. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986
 * The Frames Trilogy
 * The Book of Evidence. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989
 * Ghosts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1993
 * Athena. London: Secker & Warburg, 1995


 * The Untouchable. London: Picador, 1997
 * The Alexander and Cass Cleave Trilogy
 * Eclipse. London: Picador, 2000
 * Shroud. London: Picador, 2002
 * Ancient Light. London: Viking Penguin, 2012


 * The Sea. London: Picador, 2005
 * The Infinities. London: Picador, 2009
 * The Blue Guitar. London: Viking Penguin, 2015
 * Mrs Osmond. London: Penguin, 2017
 * Snow. London: Faber & Faber, 2020 ISBN 978-1-335-23000-3
 * April in Spain. London: Faber & Faber, 2021
 * The Singularities. London: Knopf, 2022

Short stories

 * Long Lankin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1970; revised edition 1984

For children

 * The Ark. Oldcastle: Gallery, 1996

Non-fiction

 * Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City. London: Bloomsbury, 2003
 * Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir. Dublin: Hachette Books, 2016

Pseudonymous works
The following have been published as Benjamin Black:
 * Quirke series
 * Christine Falls. London: Picador, 2006
 * The Silver Swan. London: Picador, 2007
 * Elegy for April. London: Picador, 2011
 * A Death in Summer. London: Mantle, 2011
 * Vengeance. London: Mantle, 2012
 * Holy Orders. New York: Henry Holt, 2013
 * Even the Dead. London: Penguin, 2016
 * April in Spain. London: Faber & Faber, 2021 [published as John Banville]
 * The Lock-Up. London: Faber & Faber, 2023 [published as John Banville]


 * The Lemur. London: Picador, 2008 (previously serialised in The New York Times)
 * The Black-Eyed Blonde. New York: Henry Holt, 2014 (a Philip Marlowe novel)
 * Prague Nights. London: Penguin, 2017 (known to U.S. readers as Wolf on a String)
 * The Secret Guests, 2020

Plays

 * The Broken Jug. Oldcastle: Gallery, 1995 (after Heinrich von Kleist's play of that name)
 * Seachange. Unpublished (performed 1994 in the Focus Theatre, Dublin)
 * Dublin 1742. Unpublished (performed 2002 in The Ark, Dublin; a play for those between the ages of nine and fourteen)
 * God's Gift: A Version of Amphitryon by Heinrich von Kleist. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2000
 * Love in the Wars. Oldcastle: Gallery, 2005 (adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea)
 * Todtnauberg. Radio play aired by the BBC in January 2006; later reissued as Conversation in the Mountains in 2008. about the conversations between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger (and his relationship with Hannah Arendt) at Todtnauberg in the Black Forest in Germany.

Screenwriting

 * 1983 or 1984?: Reflections (adaptation of The Newton Letter for Court House Films/Channel Four 1983. 90 mins)
 * 1994: Seascape
 * 1999: The Last September (adaptation of the Elizabeth Bowen novel for Trimark Pictures)
 * 2011: Albert Nobbs
 * 2013: The Sea