"a literary agent, in 1979. She died on 20 October 2008 of a brain tumour. Barnes wrote about his grief over his wife's death in an essay in his book, ""Levels of Life"". Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"" (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: ""Flaubert's Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998), and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels,"
"offputting...where's the heart?"" In September 2011, ""The Sense of an Ending"" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Barnes had been shortlisted for the prize on three previous occasions for ""Flaubert's Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998) and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). On choosing ""The Sense of an Ending"" for the shortlist, judge Gaby Wood said ""It seems to be the most obvious book on this list. It's a quiet book, but the shock that comes doesn't break stride with the tone of the rest of the book. In purely technical terms it is one of the most masterful things I've"
"ever read."" On 18 October 2011, ""The Sense of an Ending"" was awarded the Man Booker Prize. Head judge, Stella Rimington described the novel as ""exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading"". She added ""We thought it was a book that spoke to the humankind in the 21st Century."" On 15 November 2011, it was announced ""The Sense of an Ending"" had been nominated in the Best Novel category at the 2011 Costa Book Awards, though the book lost out to Andrew Miller's novel, ""Pure"". A film adaptation of the same name made its world premiere"
"and out-of-touch ruling class – it's very much a book for our time."" The 2011 awards were subject to some attention from bookmakers, who offered odds of 2/1 for favourite Matthew Hollis' biography ""Now All Roads Lead To France"" and odds of 3/1 for Miller's ""Pure"". Pure (Miller novel) Pure is a 2011 novel by English author Andrew Miller. The book is the sixth novel by Miller and was released on 9 June 2011 in the United Kingdom through Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton. The novel is set in pre-revolutionary France and the upcoming turmoil is a consistent"
"""Strange Horizons"" noted that the novel is ""perhaps more than anything else a story about identity, about the tension between who you say you are and who they say you are."" The Courier's New Bicycle The Courier's New Bicycle (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kim Westwood. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Awards for Best First Crime Novel, and won the 2011 Aurealis Award and the 2012 Ditmar Award for Best Novel. The novel is set in a Melbourne of the future, when the rate of human reproductive success has dropped markedly as a result of"
"Salvage the Bones Salvage the Bones is a 2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward and was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel explores the plight of a working-class African-American family in Mississippi as they prepare for Hurricane Katrina and follows them through the aftermath of the storm. Ward, who had lived through Katrina, wrote the novel, after being very ""dissatisifed with the way Katrina had receded from public consciousness"". In an interview with the ""Paris Review"", Ward said she drew inspiration from ""Medea"" and the works of William Faulkner. As a winner of the National"
"The Unselfish Gene The Unselfish Gene is a science fiction novel by Robert Douglas Burns, published in 2008 by Swimming Kangaroo Books. In the mid-21st century, a form of bird flu has killed billions and turned most of the rest into mindless, stumbling zombie-like invalids. The few humans who had immunity now face the threat of a comet on a collision course with Earth. Settlers from the Moon colony were spared the disease, but face their own threats to survival: radiation-induced mental illness, a limited gene pool and shrinking resources. The Moon settlers have launched a last-ditch mission to Earth"
"The Unselfish Gene The Unselfish Gene is a science fiction novel by Robert Douglas Burns, published in 2008 by Swimming Kangaroo Books. In the mid-21st century, a form of bird flu has killed billions and turned most of the rest into mindless, stumbling zombie-like invalids. The few humans who had immunity now face the threat of a comet on a collision course with Earth. Settlers from the Moon colony were spared the disease, but face their own threats to survival: radiation-induced mental illness, a limited gene pool and shrinking resources. The Moon settlers have launched a last-ditch mission to Earth"
"Daybreak Zero Daybreak Zero is the title of a science fiction novel by John Barnes. It is the second of three books comprising the Daybreak series. In the near future, a variety of groups with diverse aims, but an overlapping desire to end modern technological society (the ""Big System"") create a nanotech plague (""Daybreak"") which both destroys rubber and plastics and eats away any metal conductors carrying electricity. An open question in the book is whether these groups, and their shared motivation, are coordinated by some conscious actor, or whether they are an emergent property / meme that attained a"
"as the opening film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in Palm Springs, California on 5 January 2017. The limited US release began on 10 March 2017. It was directed by Ritesh Batra from a screenplay adaptation by Nick Payne with a cast including Michelle Dockery, Emily Mortimer, Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, and Harriet Walter. The Sense of an Ending The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel written by British author Julian Barnes. The book is Barnes' eleventh novel written under his own name (he has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh) and was"
"dog, sheep, camel and parrot). One of the central themes of the novel is subjectivism. The novel provides three sequential chronologies of Flaubert's life: the first is optimistic (citing his successes, conquests, etc.), the second is negative (citing the deaths of his friends/lovers, his failures, illnesses etc.) and the third compiles quotations written by Flaubert in his journal at various points in his life. The attempts to find the real Flaubert mirror the attempt to find his parrot, i.e. apparent futility. Flaubert's Parrot Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984"
"the even higher highs and those heartbreaking lows. This book has already shocked early readers with its honesty. This is the real deal."" Working Class Man (memoir) Working Class Man is the 2017 memoir by Jimmy Barnes, and sequel to his 2016 ""Working Class Boy"". On 3 May 2018, Barnes won the biography of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards for the second year in a row. Michael Dwyer from Sydney Morning Herald called the memoir ""honest"" and said ""It begins exactly where last year's ""Working Class Boy"" ended: on a tenuous high note, with our hero escaping"
"was number 12 on a list of the top 100 gay books compiled by The Publishing Triangle in 1999. Barnes's verse play ""The Antiphon"" (1958) is set in England in 1939. Jeremy Hobbs, in disguise as Jack Blow, has brought his family together at their ruined ancestral home, Burley Hall. His motive is never explicitly stated, but he seems to want to provoke a confrontation among the members of his family and force them to confront the truth about their past. His sister Miranda is a stage actress, now ""out of patron and of money""; her materialistic brothers, Elisha and"
"Before She Met Me Before She Met Me is a novel by English writer Julian Barnes, first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape. It is a black comedy which scrutinizes the awakening of sexual jealousy in a dull and otherwise sensible college lecturer. After fifteen years of marriage to a nagging woman who despises everything about him Graham Hendrick files for divorce and marries Ann, a beautiful former actress and seemingly the woman of his dreams. Initially he believes this to be the start of the good life and congratulates himself daily, hourly but as he learns more about Ann’s"
"The Courier's New Bicycle The Courier's New Bicycle (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kim Westwood. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Awards for Best First Crime Novel, and won the 2011 Aurealis Award and the 2012 Ditmar Award for Best Novel. The novel is set in a Melbourne of the future, when the rate of human reproductive success has dropped markedly as a result of reactions to a hastily developed and widely distributed flu vaccine. A thriving black market in fertility treatments has arisen, facilitated by Salisbury Forth, the courier of the title. Niall Harrison on"
"can be put in the service of a relentless campaign of individual sexual harassment. Burns draws on the experience of Northern Ireland during the Troubles to portray a world that allows individuals to abuse the power granted by a community to those who resist the state on their behalf. Yet this is never a novel about just one place or time. The local is in service to an exploration of the universal experience of societies in crisis.’ Milkman (novel) Milkman is a novel written by Anna Burns. It won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the first time a"
"bestseller. In 2011, the novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the oldest literary prize in the United Kingdom. In addition it was a Finalist for the ""Los Angeles Times"" Book Prize and named a NYT Notable Book. It has been optioned to become a feature film. Her second novel, ""The Forgetting Tree"" (2012) was a New York Times Notable Book and NYT Editors' Choice. The book centers around a California ranching woman who runs her family's citrus farm and the Caribbean-born caretaker she hires to take help her through an illness. Jane Smiley, in the New York Times,"
"One for the Morning Glory One For the Morning Glory is a fantasy novel by John Barnes, published 1996. It is a fairy tale where the characters know that they are in a fairy tale. The novel has a humorous tone similar to William Goldman's ""The Princess Bride"" — quite different from Barnes' usual science fiction. It forms the second part of a three book series whose first and third parts are not yet written. There is a saying in the land that someone who drinks the Wine of the Gods before he is ready is only half a man"
"Zoo City Zoo City is a 2010 science fiction novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. It won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2010 Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel. The cover of the British edition of the book was awarded the 2010 BSFA Award for best artwork, and the book itself was shortlisted in the best novel category of the award. ""Zoo City"" is set in an alternate version of the South African city of Johannesburg, in which people who have committed a crime are magically attached to an animal familiar – those who receive such"
"United Kingdom and poverty. As well as investigating the murder with his best friend, Dean, Harri shares with the reader his thoughts, impressions and experiences of growing up in an environment beset with pressures and threats. The novel explores his attempts to remain good despite the corrupting forces around him. It was first published in March 2011 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom. The novel was critically acclaimed on publication and was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. It went on to be shortlisted for ten awards, including the Guardian First Book Award, Desmond Elliott Prize, and Galaxy National"
"Christian Bale and Emily Watson, with a score by Mark Knopfler. The executive producer was Andrew Bandall and the director was Philip Saville. Metroland (novel) Metroland is an English novel written by Julian Barnes and published in 1980. Philip Larkin wrote a letter to Barnes saying ""that he had much enjoyed it, despite his prejudice against novels with people under the age of 21 in them. He added, gloomily, something like, 'but is that what life's like nowadays?'"" Barnes described ""this unexpected praise"" as ""the most gratifying moment of the strange passage of first publication."" ""Metroland"" is a first person"
"this award. Said the president of the jury, “When we the members of the jury met to vote the winner of the award, there were no surprises. We unanimously acclaimed The Traitor's Emblem. The real surprise came when we broke the sealed envelope that kept the name of the author, and we discovered that such a complex, brilliant and dark story was written by a 30-year-old man.” The Traitor's Emblem The Traitor's Emblem is a 2011 bestselling thriller novel by Juan Gómez-Jurado originally published in Spain. It has become an instant bestseller throughout Europe with more a million copies sold"
"John Barnes (author) John Barnes (born 1957 in Angola, Indiana) is an American science fiction author. Two of his novels, ""The Sky So Big and Black"" and ""The Duke of Uranium"" have been reviewed as having content appropriate for a young adult readership, comparing favorably to Robert A. Heinlein's ""juvenile"" novels. He has contributed to the Internet Evolution website. Barnes's hometown is Bowling Green, Ohio. Barnes earned a B.A. degree from Washington University, an M.A. degree from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. degree in theater from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at Western State College. He"
"previous novel, ""Zoo City"", a hardboiled thriller about crime, magic, the music industry, refugees and redemption set in a re-imagined Johannesburg won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the 2010 Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel. It was short-listed for the 2010 BSFA Award for best novel, the 2011 World Fantasy award for best novel, the 2010–2011 University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize, the M-Net Literary Awards, the Nielsen's Booksellers' Choice Award 2011 and long-listed for South Africa's Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2011 and the 2012 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The cover artwork received the 2010 BSFA award for"
"interviews leading up to the release of this novel, Mitchell described this shared universe as an ""uber-novel"". The Bone Clocks The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award. The novel is divided into six sections with five point-of-view first-person narrators. They are loosely connected by the character of Holly Sykes, a young woman from Gravesend who is gifted with an ""invisible eye"" and semi-psychic abilities, and a war"
"for the first time. Among the first titles in the new wave of release was Lauren Beukes’ ""Zoo City"", which went on to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction book of the year in April 2011. The novel was also nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award (it came second, but its cover art – by Joey HiFi - won a separate BSFA Award) and a World Fantasy Award. Also notable was a reprint of K. W. Jeter’s pair of seminal steampunk novels, ""Morlock Night"" and ""Infernal Devices"". The imprint makes great capital out of"
"2011. The novel was on the YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012 list as well as landing on the Reader's Choice Booklist for Sci-Fi/Fantasy. It also won the 2012 Audie Award for Best Fantasy Audiobook. ""Daughter of Smoke and Bone"" was placed on ""Best Books of 2011"" lists for ""Publishers Weekly"", ""School Library Journal"", ""Kirkus Reviews"" (Best Teen Books), and the Los Angeles Public Library, as well as a Best of the Best award from the Chicago Public Library for 2012. The book was a finalist for both the Andre Norton Award and the Children's Choice Book"
"time to the position of Chief Sports Writer. He is the author of 16 books including three novels. His latest book, ""Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong"", was published in 2011. Barnes has also appeared in a number of programmes on BBC Radio 2, including a reading of his book, ""How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher"". Barnes lives in Norfolk. He was on ""The Times"" team at the 2012 London Olympics, the seventh summer Games that he has covered for the newspaper. In March 2009 he was runner-up in the Sports Journalists' Association's 'Sports Columnist of the"
"The Only Story The Only Story is a novel by Julian Barnes. It is his thirteenth novel, and was published on 1 February 2018. The short (273 pp.) novel is the life story of Paul Roberts, who we first meet as a 19-year-old Sussex University undergraduate returning to his parents' house in the leafy southern suburbs of London (Sutton, in Surrey, is suggested as a model.) The time is the early sixties, and there are a few references to current events. Paul joins the tennis club, which is the one of the few opportunities such places offer for socialising. In"
"Number 11 (novel) Number 11 is a novel by British writer Jonathan Coe, published in 2015. The book explores the changing social, economical and cultural landscape of the United Kingdom in the early 21st century. It is connected to Coe's previous novel ""What a Carve Up!"", through shared themes and references to characters and events from the latter. The book comprises five parts with interconnected plot lines and multiple points of view. ""The Black Tower"" takes place in rural Yorkshire in 2003, soon after the invasion of Iraq and the death of David Kelly. It follows the beginning of the"
"A History of the World in 10½ Chapters A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 1989. It is a collection of short stories in different styles; however, at some points they echo each other and have subtle connection points. Most are fictional but some are historical. One of the many recurrent motifs in the book is the portrayal of ships. This alludes to Noah's Ark — the subject of the first chapter — which plays a dominant role in the Abrahamic religions as an example of God's judgment. The woodworm who"
"in the UK, including the 2008 Guardian award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and the Costa Children's Book Award. ""Monsters of Men"" won the Carnegie Medal in 2011. The series has been praised for its handling of themes such as gender politics, redemption, the meaning of war, and the unclear distinction between good and evil, all threaded through its complex, fast-paced narrative. The first novel is narrated entirely by Todd, the second is told through the viewpoints of both Todd and Viola and the third book is narrated by Todd, Viola and The Return. Ness claims that the idea for"
"the novel, the Marines build the base, but later they are ordered to abandon it. The latter portions of the novel detail the struggles of Bravo Company to retake the base, which fell into enemy hands after it was abandoned. ""Matterhorn"" received high praise from many critics. In ""The New York Times"" Sebastian Junger called it one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of Vietnam—or any war. ""Matterhorn"" was Amazon's ""Book of the Month"" for March 2010, and debuted on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list in April 2010. It won the 2011 William E."