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|author=Julian Barnes
|title=The Noise of Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Julian Barnes's first novel since he won the Booker Prize for [[The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes]] is a fictionalised biography of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906–75). Knowing Barnes's penchant for stylistic experimentation, though, this was never going to be a straightforward, chronological life story. Instead, as Barnes so often does, he sets up a tripartite structure, focussing on three moments in Shostakovich's life when he has a reckoning with Power (always capitalised here). The title phrase helpfully spells out what the book is all about: 'Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910702609</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Shane Hegarty
|summary=17th century life circumstances dictate that Helena Jans has to go into service and is employed by Mr Sergeant, an English bookseller living in Amsterdam. There's much excitement when Mr Sergeant welcomes his new lodger, philosopher and scientist, Rene Descartes. However the thrill becomes somewhat muted when Helena's employer realises what the stay entails. Helena on the other hand, is totally enthralled by their guest: an enthrallment that will totally change her life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473617855</amazonuk>
}}