Malcolm Bradbury writes of the novel: "The will to vision, the liberal wish for right reason, the claim of the holiness of the heart's affections – all are consistently confronted with ambiguity." How do you respond to this assessment of Howards End? Perhaps what makes Howard...

Abstract John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in (1945). He is a novelist of ambition who cherished all works of literature of high imagination as well as craft and experimentation. He turned to literature itself as a source of imagination and aspiration for his fiction. Banville's nove...