back in a moment, julian barnes the great english novelist joins us, stay with us. >> julian barnes is here, "the new york times" said of his writing, if there is a single theme running throughout barnes work it is the elusiveness of truth. the subjectivity of memory, the relativity of all knowledge. he was as you know awarded the man booker prize for 2011 forth book sense of an ending. lis new novel is called the noise of time it is a fictionalized account of composer-- life under stalin. i'm pleased to have julian barns at this table again. welcome. >> thank you. >> great to see you. first of all let's talk about serious stuff here. >> sure. >> rose: you grew up in leicester. >> i did. >> rose: what does it mean to you? >> it is incredible. my football clubk socks soccer as you call it, after 55 years of support from me and never having won anything, finally won the premiership. this is, you know, it's not even david and gol eyate. it's a tiny little-- it's bigger than that. it has very sort of comic side bars to it i mean accident emergency had twice as many admissions as in a norma

. >> rose: we continue with julian barnes, his new novel is called the noise of time, a

charlie: back in a moment, julian barnes. stay with us. ♪ ♪ charlie: julian barnes is here. ew york times" has said of his writing, if there is a single theme running through barnes' work, it is the elusiveness of truth. the subjectivity of memory. the relativity of all knowledge. he was awarded the booker prize for 2011. his new novel is called "the noise of time." it is a fictionalized account of composer shostakovich's life under stalin. great to see you. let's talk about serious stuff. you grew up in leicester. what does it mean to you? julian: it's incredible. my football club, soccer as you call it, after 65 years of support from me, and never having won anything, finally won the premiership. it's not even david and goliath, it's bigger than that. it has various sort of comic sidebars to it. a lot of festivity has been going on in leicester. it has been famous for two things. the first is the bones of king richard iii were discovered under a municipal carpark. the second is the city won the premiership. there are going to be lots of books about this event. there is one

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