The Booker prizewinner’s pathologist is a stunning creation, says Tony Rossiter
They’re the same person, but very different writers. John Banville writes‘literary’ novels and has won the Booker prize; Benjamin Black writes crime novels, most of them featuring the Dublin pathologist Quirke. What surprised me was to come across an interview in which he said: ‘I certainly like the Benjamin Black books more than my Banville novels.’