John Banville reveals the novel that he considers a work of art...
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
“I love Evelyn Waugh. He was one of the first people I read when I was growing up in Ireland; he taught me a lot about the English language. Scoop is so elegant, so stylish and so wonderfully funny, which is a rare combination. Waugh’s poise and control in this book is amazing: every time I read it, it’s so slight, it seems like something he just threw off, but in fact it’s a wonderfully wrought work of art, without any self-consciousness at all…”