Departure(s) Richard Coles Former dancer and party loyalist

Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country

serving not as a soldier but as a civilian provisioners assistant

author of the Frontlines series

Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home

Departure(s) Richard Coles Former dancer and party loyalistThe new book from the Booker Prize winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life Departure(s) is a work of fiction but that doesnt mean its not true. It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality. It is also the story of how