Paperback edition of the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner, and "Sunday Times" bestseller. Tony Webster looks back on his youth and his friendship with the brilliant but serious Adrian. But just how fallible is his memory of that time? A powerful story of a man coming to terms with his mutable past, from the author of "Arthur & George, Metroland" and "Flaubert's Parrot". 'A masterpiece... I would urge you to read and re-read "The Sense Of An Ending"' "Daily Telegraph"

Julian Barnes is the author of eleven novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 Chapters and Arthur & George. The Sense of an Ending is his most recent novel and the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; and three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare and The Pedant in the Kitchen. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). In 2004 he received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and in 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. He lives in London.

Julian Barnes: Julian Barnes, 1946 geboren, arbeitete nach dem Studium der modernen Sprachen zunächst als Lexikograph und dann als Journalist. Seit 1980 hat Julian Barnes zahlreiche Romane geschrieben. Für sein Werk wurde er weltweit mit zahlreichen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. 2004 und 2005 erhielt er den Österreichischen Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur. Julian Barnes lebt in London.