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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 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...
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...
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...
Arthur & George
Random House of Canada 2009; US$ 16.95Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness, pathos and wisdom. Searching for clues, no one would ever guess that the lives of Arthur and George might intersect. Growing up in shabby-genteel nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Arthur is saddled with a dad... more...
Pulse
Random House of Canada 2011; US$ 19.95From a writer who's on a roll, fourteen stories that range freely through the historical past and contemporary life, touching on longing and love, loss and friendship, and a great many passions in between. It's the strongest collection yet from Julian Barnes. From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi's adventures in the nineteenth,... more...









