Time Pieces

''If you''re interested in Dublin, or if you''re interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you''re interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I''m all three - then Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir is a book you''ll not be able to put down'' The Guardian

''A trove of arresting imagery, from the lushly poetic to the luridly absurd ... utterly delightful'' Irish Times

''Delicious ... B...