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Where I write . . . John Banville’s place of ‘happy nothingness’

The Irish author needs a blank wall, a wide desk and a menagerie of inanimate creatures — ferocious Chinese dragons and a wooden mouse in a polka-dot frock among them — to work

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence

Entertainment - ABC News - November 2

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence

World - ABC News - November 2

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Where I write . . . John Banville’s place of ‘happy nothingness’

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum