Last year's winner, Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending, has sold 300, 000 copies so far.
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Discusses the use of pseudonyms by Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal.
Its first lecture was attended by authors including David Nicholls, Julian Barnes, Sarah Waters and Joanna Trollope.
The Channel tunnel has raised hopes of closer Anglo-French relations in the most Francophile of English novelists, Julian Barnes.
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It manages the rights of the books, plays and films of Julian Barnes, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Keira Knightley and Hugh Grant, among others.
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Lawrence, and above all Melville, but not Don DeLillo, John Updike, Julian Barnes and others, who are all too tidy, controlling, and existentially complacent.
Julian Barnes' novel was overwritten quite deliberately, aping the Edwardian style.
Auden and Julian Barnes, but never caught on widely with readers.
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There was his falling out with former friend Julian Barnes (he dropped Mr. Barnes's wife, the late Pat Kavanagh, as an agent, in favor of Andrew Wylie in 1994).
With so many "big" books on the shortlist and well-known favourites like Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro, it was quite exciting to see John Banville slink off with the Man Booker Prize last night.
Weekly sales in the U.K. of last year's winner, "Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes, jumped from 2, 535 to 14, 534 -- an increase of 473% -- in the week it won, according to Nielsen Bookscan.
Also nominated was Geoff Dyer's take on Julian Barnes' Booker-winning novel, The Sense of An Ending, of which he said: "It isn't terrible, it is just so... average, " and David Sexton's review of Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees - calling it "very GCSE".
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