Donovan attracted immediate critical acclaim with his debut novel Schopenhauer's Telescope, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2003,[3] and which won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award in 2004.
[4] His subsequent novels include Doctor Salt (2005), Julius Winsome (2006), and Sunless (2007).
I wrote [Doctor Salt] too fast, and the sense I was after just wasn't in the novel.
I saw the chance to write the real novel, if you like, [when Doctor Salt was due to be published in the United States in 2007] and this I hope I've done in Sunless.
"[5] Before writing prose, Donovan published three collections of poetry: Columbus Rides Again (1992), Kings and Bicycles (1995), and The Lighthouse (2000).