One of the books I read last month was The Sea by John Banville. He won the Booker Prize for it last year and deservedly so. The book looked at memory and the past and how we can either romanticize it or possibly put it as the cause for too many of our problems.
Now, he's written a new novel, a mystery, but written under the name Benjamin Black. One review liked it and here's interview with Banville that looks at the reasons why he decided to write in a genre and what the future holds.
Thankfully, the book doesn't come out here until March. I say thankfully since there are many, many books out right now or coming out before the end of the year that I don't want my TBR pile to hit the ceiling.
Posted by Josh at October 10, 2006 08:12 AM