Published in 1989 before such things had become commonplace, Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10 Chapters is a postmodernist anti-novel that may even be said to be anti-history, despite its title. Each of its ten chapters is actually an...

The Sense of an Ending is Julian Barnes' 2011 novel following a middle-aged man as he begins to deal with his past, something he rarely thought of. Things get crazier when his childhood friends come to visit him - one of whom had died. He thought...