Julian Barnes’novel, based on real events, traces the intersecting lives of an obscure solicitor and the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes.Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late 19th-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that make sensational headlines - the ‘Great Wyrley Outrages’.“An absorbing fictional re-creation of a real-life detective story…. A finely evocative historical novel as well as a morally and psychologically astute glimpse into the worlds of two men.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review“A page-turner…. Arthur & George is by far Mr Barnes’s most pressurized novel to date.”-Wall Street JournalJulian Barnesis the author of 13 novels, includingThe Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize. He wrote two Sunday Times bestsellers - The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including Levels of Life and The Man in the Red Coat, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Duff Cooper Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur.