Cross Channel

Always intelligent and perceptive, but so beautifully written that it’s easy to understand. * Week *
Crisp with witty, urbane intelligence. * Sunday Times *
Wonderfully ironic, perceptive and at times tender… Barnes has created something unique in his work, a particular way of looking at life, at words, at relationships, which is the mark of every true stylist * Financial Times *
His writing demonstrates the billowing lightness of imagination… reading these stories, you perceive and love France afresh… Cross Channel is characterised by the intelligence, irony and wit you associate with his writing, but it is also suffused with feeling, deeply seasoned with affection * Independent *
A glittering collection of stories… His marvellously supple and exact prose is matched with subjects that powerfully stir his creativity… It’s impossible to imagine a fictional panorama of Britain’s long relationship with France realized with more cordial understanding * Sunday Times *
Love, sex, art, literature, wars, religion, wine, spirit, the steam engine and, yes, Eurostar: they are all there. All the emotions, attitudes, pursuits and endeavours that typically seem to link Britain to France feature in the first collection of short stories by Julian Barnes…A delightful book * European *

Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, 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 five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d’honneur in 2017.

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