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Julian Barnes
Originally published in the UK in 2019 by Jonathan Cape.
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In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to…
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Britain’s most passionate Francophile takes us on a wonderfully rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.
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From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling’s view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell…
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Julian Rothenstein, Julian Barnes
Curated by novelist Julian Barnes, the celebrated cult diary explores the mysteries and complexities of family bonds
An essay on grief and love for the author’s late wife Pat, in which he discusses ballooning, photography, love, and bereavement; putting two things and two people together; and then…
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At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater…
Calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Beginning with an unlikely stowaway’s account of life on board Noah’s Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents…
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Contains stories spanning several centuries. This book takes as its universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming ‘navvies’ labouring…
‘I don’t believe in God, but I miss Him.’ Julian Barnes’ new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality…
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most…
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We’d like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. Her ideas are not to everyone’s taste. But she will change…
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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. May…
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A wise, heartfelt and powerful new novel from Julian Barnes - a book that is a balm for our times with an extraordinary woman at its heart
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new…
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert’s Parrot is by…
Frank O'Connor
The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful…
John Cheever
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century’s most influential short story writer.
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNES
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John…
Peter Childs
A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels
Frederick M. Holmes
This comprehensive introduction places the work of Julian Barnes into historical and theoretical context. Including a timeline of key dates, this guide explores his characteristic literary techniques, offers extensive readings…
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A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels – .
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Vanessa Guignery
Julian Barnes’s work has been marked by great variety, ranging not only from conventional fiction to postmodernist experimentation in such well-known novels as Flaubert’s Parrot (1984) and A History of…
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed… In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and…
Edith Wharton
George Darrow, an American diplomat is in love with the recently widowed Anna Leath. On his way from London to visit her in France, Darrow finds himself accompanying Sophy Viner…
Turc Lorena Diana
Julian Barnes is one of the first names which comes to our minds when we think of literary postmodernism. An impressive amount of criticism has been dedicated to his novels…
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Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Julian Barnes’s Melon, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Julian Barnes (Author)
‘The funniest piece of food writing - my own theoretical metier -that you will ever read’. The Times
After the bestselling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Barnes returns with 14 stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with…
In his first collection of short stories, the author of Flaubert’s Parrot and Letters from London spans three centuries and the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension that separates England…
A special edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for…
Julian Barnes, one of the most famous contemporary English writers, tells an exquisite story about his funny experiences and adventures among pans, his successes and defeats. This is a pleasant…
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this commanding and imaginative achievement ( Sunday Times, London) tells the story of Sir Jack Pitman, who seeks to realize a destination where replicas of…
This is a highlight of Julian Barnes work. It has received several awards and is considered the novel that made him an essential author. Barnes mixes fiction and reality in…
An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit…
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the…
Graham Hendrick, an historian, becomes obsessed with discovering all of the men his actress wife, Ann, loved before him.
Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book…
Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes reinvigorates the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a farce to…
Paul comes home from university, nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s…
In this illuminating collection of essays on art, Barnes turns his narrative gifts toward some of the most important paintings in the Western canon, eloquently voicing our reactions to these…
