Flaubert's Parrot

Barnes manages to be erudite but extremely funny too… You never know what Barnes is going to do next and I admire that.’ * Daily Express *Delightful and enriching… A book to revel inA gem: an unashamed literary novel that is also unashamed to be readable, and broadly entertaining. Bravo!Endless food for thought, beautifully written… A tour de forceUnputdownable… A mesmeric originalA wry and graceful book… Unfailingly sharp and often very funny * Sunday Times *A dazzling entertainer * New Yorker *Delightful and enriching… A book to revel in!Julian Barnes’ wry and graceful book, part novel, part stealthy literary criticism, traces the marks Flaubert made on a forgetting world. The writing is unfailingly sharp and often very funny, and among the best prose I have read in years * Sunday Times *A delight… Handsomely the best novel published in England in 1984 * John Fowles *

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d’Honneur in 2017.