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Banville, John
John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the Kafka Prize in 2007 and the prestigious Austrian state prize for European literature in 2014. He was elected to the British Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and the Italian Ordine della Stella d’Italia in 2017. As an author, he is regarded as an heir to Marcel Proust and Vla...
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Matthew Hope
Gender: Male
Lawyer Matthew Hope moves with his wife Susan and daughter Joanna from Chicago to Calusa in Florida to work with commercial law for a small law firm. But nothing goes as he wished: thanks to his detective talents, he unwillingly becomes a leading criminal lawyer and his marriage ends in divorce, as we read in the books by Ed McBain (pseudonym for Evan Hunter).