Philip Larkin’s last words, Julian Barnes tells us in the final pages of this affable book, were “I am going to the ...

Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare ...

Departure(s) explores several of Barnes' lifelong obsessions — mortality, memory, and time. It's slim but weighty, digressive ...

Barnes also opened up about the experience of losing his first wife, who died of an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2008 ...

As Julian Barnes and Jeffrey Archer announce their retirement, it feels fitting that many other writers should also end their ...

This makes sense for a writer whose life over the past 25 years has been marked by great career successes – including the ...

Author Julian Barnes secretly remarried ahead of his 80th birthday while living with a rare blood cancer, revealing the news at a surprise celebration.

Julian Barnes writes that when he was younger, one of his rules was “write each book as if it will be your last”. The clue is ...

Julian Barnes says goodbye with a poignant and meditative final book, blurring the line between fiction and memoir.

The Booker prize-winning novelist ponders the ‘struggle to find happiness and accept life’s ending’ ...

Departure(s) by Julian Barnes: Love, sex and a real sense of an ending - ...

Memoir merges with fiction as the author reflects on failed love, ageing and the end of life in this last instalment to his writing career ...