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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 ReviewSo elegant is Barnes’ prose that it’s easy to overlook his comic talents...this is Barnes cementing his reputation as a lively, curious reader as well as one of Britain’s best living writers. -- Tom Cox * Sunday Times, Books of the Year *
Engaging, eloquent, entertaining and erudite... There is a capacious generosity throughout this book, and I would defy anyone not to leave without feeling both better informed and better disposed... It is rare indeed for a collection of occasional pieces such as this to inspire feelings of profound thankfulness. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
A truly wonderful collection. * Sunday Times *
The book relies on stylish intelligence and cool calm to accomplish its mastery… This is a coquettish book. Barnes flatters readers into feeling that they may be as shrewd, discriminating and attractive as he is. -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Spectator *
A devastatingly brilliant critic. -- Olivia Laing * Prospect *
