Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes (born January 1946) is a British writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been previously shortlisted three times.

Books by Julian Barnes

After he became famous, Conan Doyle thought of himself as a public intellectual and he wrote many letters to The Times protesting about atrocities in the Belgian Congo, arguing for divorce law reform, and trying to right the wrongs of people unjustly incarcerated. Arthur and George, Julian Barnes’s novel previous to his Booker Prize winner, was about Arthur Conan Doyle in one of these cases.

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Very Short Books You Can Read In A Day, recommended by Cal Flyn

Talked a lot of big talk about writing that novel in lockdown, or repainting the house? Us too. When it came down to it, many of us have felt too frantic to take on big projects – and that goes for our reading lives too. Here, Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn recommends some very short books that might be read over the course of a day or, being small and easily surmountable, might just break a reading drought.

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