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The Sense of an Ending
Random House 2011; US$ 10.67Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 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. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all... more...
Levels of Life
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.67'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled... more...
Arthur and George
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2006; US$ 16.00As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later?one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world?s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his... more...
Love, etc.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human frailties and needs. After spending a decade in America... more...
The Lemon Table
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives?some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied... more...
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If... more...
England, England
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." -- The New York Times Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the... more...
Something to Declare
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes?s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes?s appreciation extends from France?s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague... more...
Cross Channel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they discover, alongside... more...
Letters from London
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...









