"THE COLOUR INSIDE MY MIND"

With the latest John Banville novel making its way in the world, and a new Benjamin Black novel about to make an appearance, the author of both chats with the Herald on subjects ranging from the legacy of the Celtic Tiger to artistic bullying to the scandal rocking the church.

"You can know and choose not to know at the same time," he says bleakly. "The Germans did that. The Turks did it and are still doing it with the Armenians. The Rwandans did it. This is a very, troubled, dark, little...