Banville wins Booker

Great to see fellow Irishman John Banville win the Man Booker Prize for best novel of 2005. I cannot wait to read The Sea.

I read his 1989 short-listed The Book of Evidence as soon as it appeared, having followed the '80's murder case on which it was loosely based. It is one of my 3 favourite novels.
Banville was literary editor of The Irish Times for many years; a good reviewer then: indeed I have no reason to believe he hasn't improved as both reviewer and novelist since.