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JULIAN BARNES The Man in the Red Coat. Reviewed by Carmel Bird

JULIAN BARNES The Man in the Red Coat. Reviewed by Carmel Bird

by NRB | 5 Nov 2019 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

In The Man in the Red Coat Julian Barnes has created both a biography and a portrait of the Belle Epoque. The man of the title is Samuel Pozzi, a fashionable, innovative and brilliant Parisian surgeon and gynecologist, a lover, a collector of beautiful objects – and...
JULIAN BARNES The Noise of Time. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson

JULIAN BARNES The Noise of Time. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson

by NRB | 22 Nov 2018 | Fiction | 1 comment

Barnes has made the leap across time, culture, language and artform to believably invoke the thoughts of a brilliant but troubled Soviet composer. A composer, famous even beyond the razor-wire girdling the border of the Soviet Union, receives a bad review in Pravda,...
JULIAN BARNES The Only Story. Reviewed by Carmel Bird

JULIAN BARNES The Only Story. Reviewed by Carmel Bird

by NRB | 1 Mar 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

The  latest novel by Booker-winner Julian Barnes shares resonances with The Sense of an Ending. Some time in the 1980s I read Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes. I loved it so much that not only did I give copies to several friends, but my own paperback fell...
ALAIN DE BOTTON The Course of Love. Reviewed by Robin Elizabeth

ALAIN DE BOTTON The Course of Love. Reviewed by Robin Elizabeth

by NRB | 23 Feb 2017 | Fiction | 0 comments

De Botton’s novel about relationships and keeping love alive comes with an inbuilt commentary from the author. The Course of Love has been touted as the long-awaited sequel to Alain de Botton’s debut novel Essays in Love, which was first published in 1993. In...
             

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