Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 Chapters and Arthur & George; two books of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and also 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 was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in London.
Pulse is Barnes's 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form. -- Elizabeth Day Observer Julian Barnes writes so exquisitely that every page of this collection contains literary pearls Mail on Sunday All the stories in Pulse have the absolute completeness and density of the very best short fiction New Statesman Masterclasses in the form, full of the sidelong wit and intelligence that make the writer one of our most consistently deft short-form stylists Daily Telegraph Barnes' stylish prose, eye for emotional detail and sense of absurdity never let him down... He suits the short story very well Literary Review