Description
Book SynopsisJulian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including
The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and
Sunday Times bestsellers
The Noise of Time and
The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the
Sunday Times number one bestseller
Levels of Life and
Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Trade ReviewFrequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic, and a delight to read. Barnes is like a worldly, secular reincarnation of a medieval gloss-writer on sacred texts, and what he offers us is the novel as footnote to history, as subversion of the given, as brilliant, elaborate doodle around the margins of what we think about what we think we know * Observer *
You will want to read it again and again, and why not? - there's nothing around to touch it * Literary Review *
There is more moral and intellectual fodder, and more jokes, here than you will read in a month of Sundays... storytelling and teaching which captivate, liberate, and above all, enchant * Financial Times *
This is a novel like no other - provocative, superbly funny, a wonderful and most original work...gives the reader a sense of ebullient, whooping joy * Guardian *
