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Julian Barnes

The Man in the Red Coat

  • The Man in the Red Coat

  • *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*

    'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening Standard

    The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.

    In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life.

    Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.

    The Man in the Red Coat is at once a fresh and original portrait of the Belle Epoque - its heroes and villains, its writers, artists and thinkers - and a life of a man ahead of his time...

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**

RELEASED 03/06/2021

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Keeping an Eye Open
Keeping an Eye Open
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The Only Story
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Death
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The Sense of an Ending
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The Noise of Time
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Levels of Life
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Vigilance (Storycuts)
Vigilance (Storycuts)
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The Things You Know (Storycuts)
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The Story of Mats Israelson (Storycuts)
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The Revival (Storycuts)
The Revival (Storycuts)
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The Fruit Cage (Storycuts)
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Knowing French (Storycuts)
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Appetite (Storycuts)
Appetite (Storycuts)
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A Short History of Hairdressing (Storycuts)
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Bark / The Silence (Storycuts)
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Pulse
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The Lemon Table
The Lemon Table
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Staring at the Sun
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Talking It Over
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Frank O'Connor Omnibus
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Vintage Minis

Vintage Minis

43 Books
Penguin Modern Classics

Penguin Modern Classics

1250 Books
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Extracts

The Only Story by Julian Barnes

Man Booker prize winner Julian Barnes' latest novel The Only Story is a poignant and tender portrayal of first love. Read on for an extract
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Podcasts

Julian Barnes reads The Only Story

‘Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.’ Author Julian Barnes reads from his forthcoming new novel...
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Extracts

A letter from Dodie Smith to Julian Barnes on the first publication of Metroland

An extract from the archive edition of Metroland
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Features

Julian Barnes and Suzanne Dean

Man Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes discusses the cover design of his new novel, The Noise of Time, with Suzanne Dean. Joined by Alex Clark, they recall key moments in their twenty-year working relationship, as well as the iconic covers that have been created.
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Podcasts

Julian Barnes and Suzanne Dean podcast

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man 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 three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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