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Liam Neeson puts his trilby on as iconic sleuth Marlowe

Liam Neeson has reunited with Michael Collins and Breakfast on Pluto director Neil Jordan for Marlowe, a detective thriller based on Benjamin Black/John Banville's Philip Marlowe book The Black-Eyed Blonde.

Movies • 18 Jan 23

Liam Neeson and Neil Jordan (pictured at the premiere of Breakfast on Pluto in New York in October 2005) - Due to start filming Marlowe in October

Liam Neeson & Neil Jordan reunite for thriller Marlowe

Liam Neeson is reuniting with Michael Collins and Breakfast on Pluto director Neil Jordan for Marlowe, a detective thriller based on Benjamin Black/John Banville's Philip Marlowe book The Black-Eyed Blonde.

Movies • 08 Jun 21

John Banville said Liam Neeson "was delivering a cautionary tale"

John Banville defends 'demonised' Liam Neeson

The author John Banville has defended Liam Neeson amid the outcry over the actor's revelation that decades ago he harboured violent thoughts about killing a black man after someone close to him was raped.

Movies • 06 Feb 19

Marian Keyes winner of the Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year for her novel The Break

Big night for Irish writing at Bord Gáis Energy awards

Bernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes, John Connolly and Ruth Fitzmaurice were among the winners at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017 on Tuesday night, with new Irish writers also honoured for their debut books.

Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards • 02 Dec 17

Neil Jordan said Riviera would be "quite different" if he had been in control

Neil Jordan disowns Sky Atlantic show Riviera

The new big-budget Sky Atlantic drama Riviera features two pre-eminent Irish names in the opening credits - director Neil Jordan and writer John Banville - however Jordan is at pains to distance himself from the TV series.

neil jordan • 27 Jun 17

Bruce: his memoir is on the way at the end of the month.

Autumn Book Picks: The Boss to Banville to Lee Child

This is indeed the season of fruitfulness, mellow and otherwise, when it comes to new books about to flower or just now budding. There's everything from Banville and Barry and the Boss, to Emma Donoghue. Paddy Kehoe and Harry Guerin pick ten.

Entertainment • 07 Sep 16

Maigret and the Missus and a spoiled chicken casserole - an era 70 years before the chilling forensics of CSI.

Madame Maigret's Friend

The prolific Belgian crime novelist, Georges Simenon (1903-1989) wrote 75 Maigret detective novels and 28 Maigret short stories. Madame Maigret’s Friend is the latest in the series, which is being issued in its entirety by Penguin.

Book Reviews • 12 Sep 17

Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons in The TV film Langrishe Go Down, based on the eponymous Aidan Higgins novel

Aidan Higgins radio doc airs Bank Holiday Monday

The celebrated Irish author Aidan Higgins died at the age of 88, in Kinsale, on Sunday December 27 2015. A new documentary on his life and work entitled Aidan Higgins: The Reach of Words airs tomorrow (Monday) evening on RTÉ Radio 1.

Entertainment • 05 Jun 16

Next Benjamin Black novel set in Prague in 1600

John Banville hasn’t written it yet, but his next Benjamin Black novel will be a murder mystery set in the year 1600 in Prague.

Entertainment • 02 Nov 15

John Banville: "I write for the woman who comes up to me and says, very timidly, very delicately: `you got it right there.’ "

John Banville Interview

“The great thing about getting old is you just don’t care anymore, you don’t care what anybody says, what anybody thinks, “ says writer John Banvile, who hasn’t read reviews of his books for the “past 15 or 20 years.” Paddy Kehoe meets the Wexford author.

Entertainment • 29 Oct 15

The Book of Banville

“The great thing about getting old is you just don’t care anymore, you don’t care what anybody says, what anybody thinks, “ John Banvile tells Paddy Kehoe, declaring that he hasn’t read reviews of his books for the past 15 or 20 years.

Benjamin Black • 02 Apr 24

The Gloaming: three of the band are involved in Yeats anniversary events taking place in Dublin in September.

Music and poetry event to celebrate WB Yeats 2015

The Gloaming's fiddle-player Martin Hayes and the band's singer Iarla Ó Lionáird will take part in a Yeats 150th anniversary event at Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Saturday, September 12.

Entertainment • 19 Aug 15

Women lose out in book prizes according to study

Male-based narratives are far more likely to win major book prizes such as the Booker according to new research by a US author.

Entertainment • 02 Jun 15

The Dublin Book Doctor prescribes your next book

As part of International Literature Festival Dublin, The Dublin Book Doctor will see Paul Howard, John Banville, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Ryan Tubridy recommending books in their 'clinics' on Saturday May 16 and 23, in aid of Alone.

Entertainment • 06 May 15

New Banville novel The Blue Guitar due September

Wexford-born writer John Banville - who won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for his novel The Sea - will release his his sixteenth novel, The Blue Guitar, this September.

Entertainment • 24 Mar 15

Novelist Julia Kelly returns with The Playground

Bord Gáis Best Newcomer of the Year Award winner Julia Kelly publishes her new novel, The Playground, in September - a family drama which sees a mother wrongly accused of causing a terrible accident.

Entertainment • 31 Jul 14

Banville wins second major literary award in month

Wexford author John Banville will be named a chevalier or knight in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres at the French embassy in Dublin this evening.

Entertainment • 25 Jun 14

Banville bigger in Spain than in Ireland

In light of his winning this year’s Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, John Banville reveals that his novels are more popular in Spain than they are in Ireland.

Entertainment • 23 Jun 14

Banville and Davies walked around Dublin to make the Quirke series

Banville brought Quirke screenwriter to Mount St

Writer John Banville, aka Benjamin Black, brought veteran screenwriter Andrew Davies to Dublin’s Mount St.

Entertainment • 28 May 14

Banville - "Human beings are not expendable"

John Banville concerned about TV violence

Ahead of the debut of his noir hero Quirke on BBC One, author John Banville has voiced his concern about the amount of violent crime series on television.

Entertainment • 20 May 14

The sublime Ciarán Hinds plays the recently widowed Max

The Sea

Let it wash over you.

Movie Reviews • 17 Apr 14

Ciarán Hinds

Back on cinema screens from April 16 in the Wexford-shot The Sea, Ciarán Hinds tells Harry Guerin about starring as the recently widowed Max in the adaptation of John Banville's Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller.

Movie Reviews • 16 Apr 14

Roddy Doyle wins Novel of the Year

Winners of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2013 include Roddy Doyle, Darina Allen, Paul Howard and Michael Harding.

Entertainment • 27 Nov 13

Banville in conversation with Olivia O'Leary

John Banville will be in conversation next Wednesday at 6pm at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, with Olivia O’Leary.

Entertainment • 08 Jun 13

The Sea will be released in cinemas in September

Edinburgh premiere for Banville's The Sea

The Sea, the Wexford-shot adaptation of John Banville's Man Booker Prize-winning novel, will receive its world premiere and compete for the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival next month.

Entertainment • 29 May 13

John Banville