Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including The Sense of an Ending, Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10� Chapters and Arthur & George; three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. He lives in London.
Extraordinary.... First rate.... A cracking good yarn. <br>- The New York Times Book Review <br> An absorbing fictional re-creation of a real-life detective story. . . . A finely evocative historical novel as well as a morally and psychologically astute glimpse into the worlds of two men. <br>- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Masterly throughout. . . . The author keeps the reader on edge. <br> - The Washington Post Book World <br> Deeply satisfying. . . . From the first chapter, Barnes has us in his thrall. - San Francisco Chronicle <br> A page-turner.... Arthur & George is by far Mr. Barnes's most pressurized novel to date. - The Wall Street Journal <br> Utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted.... Rich and immensely readable.... A stream of flawless, driving sentences.... A great novel. - O, The Oprah Magazine <br> A marvelous book. - Entertainment Weekly, A <br> His most engrossing novel ever. - Jay McInerney, The New York Observer