Book review: Barnes paints a picture of a true Renaissance man
A portrait by John Singer Sargent was the inspiration for an investigation into a society doctor
Non-fiction
The Man in the Red Coat
By Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape
€24
Julian Barnes is best known as the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, and the writer behind the acclaimed 1984 novel Flaubert’s Parrot, but he is also an essayist, memoirist and writer of non-fiction. His latest book falls into the latter category and began with a trip to the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2015 where Barnes came ...
