JULIAN BARNES The Man in the Red Coat. Reviewed by Carmel Bird
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,...
Read MoreJULIAN BARNES The Noise of Time. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson
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...
Read MoreJULIAN BARNES The Only Story. Reviewed by Carmel Bird
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...
Read MoreALAIN DE BOTTON The Course of Love. Reviewed by Robin Elizabeth
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...
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