John Banville Books 

William John Banville is an acclaimed Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Born in Wexford, Banville has written more than 15 novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Sea (Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize) and more recently, the best selling Strafford & Quirke crime novels, Snow and April in Spain which have been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger. Other major awards he has won include the Franz Kafka Prize, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and the Prince of Asturias Award.

English writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer expecting she'll receive a sizeable inheritance from her father, until a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch's death, throws this into doubt. As the unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice for New Year at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarig - a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves: is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city or is he losing his mind?