Declan Burke Writes

Declan Hughes reviewed Benny Blanco’s THE LEMUR for the Irish Times yesterday, and I choked so hard on my cornflakes I needed a good Heiml...

As some of you already know, the time has come to address the proof-edits / corrections on the sequel to THE BIG O (said tome pictured rig...

Benjamin Black’s first two novels, CHRISTINE FALLS and THE SILVER SWAN , were set for the most part in 1950s Dublin and featured a patholo...

If you’ve got a jones for cover artwork, you could do a lot worse than drop on over to The Readerville Journal, where Karen Templer is curr...

It’s not that the CAP elves aren’t somersaultingly, pant-wettingly delighted that Benny Blanco (or ‘John Banville writing as Benjamin Blac...

“Speaking of which – what the fuck is going on with all the award nominations for Benny Blanco? You can’t help feeling it’s just for who h...

Benny Blanco (right, in award-winning ‘John Banville’ persona) is quite the toast of our U.S. cousins this week, with Sarah Weinman breaki...

Occasional CAP lurker Eimear gets in touch to bring us up to speed on the Joan Brady (not pictured, right) story, the poignant tale of the ...

The fantastic folk at Fantasy Book Spot bring us the first sighting of Benny Blanco’s THE LEMUR , the follow-up to THE SILVER SWAN, which ...

Incurably curious pathologist Quirke is back, in John Banville’s second novel written as Benjamin Black. It’s two years since the events of...

News comes a-filtering down the liana-style grapevine that Benny Blanco’s third Quirke novel, THE LEMUR, is to be serialised in the New Yor...