I don’t know much about Julian Barnes, but I enjoyed the one work of his I have read, The Noise of Time, a fictionalized account of the life of Dmitri Shostakovich (it was recommended to me by a fellow classical music aficionado). If you’re interested at all in Russian/Soviet history or classical composers, I would recommend it. Reading the descriptions of The Man in the Red Coat and The Sense of an Ending has piqued my interest so I may have to see if my library has them this week. :)