Description

In his first assortment of stories, Barnes examines the narrow-body of water comprising the huge ocean of misapprehension and bias which lies between France and England with skill wit, and empathy. For aesthetes, the things they uncover, alongside wealthy food, or whether Barnesis British figures arrived at England as conquerors or hostages, workers, players and barbarous spiritual and erotic practices, is their very own ineradicable Englishness. The five stories which make up Cross-Channel expose us to an array of interesting, unique, and occasionally ill fated figures. Seductively created and elegantly created, Cross-Channel is further proof of Barnesis magic.