Synopsis
The first volume of John Banville’s Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Doctor Copernicus is a rich historical novel that explores the life of one of history’s greatest scientists.
The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the...
Details
05 February 2026256 pages
9781035076819Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision and timing.Guardian
With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov.Daily Telegraph
A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world.The Times
