The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark precision, dexterity and insight. It is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers. Tony Webster and his clique first...
Introducing Stuart, Gillian, & Oliver. In turn, they speak straight out to camera - & give their side of a love triangle. What begins as a comedy of misunderstanding darkens & deepens into a compelling exploration of the quagmires...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman...
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents : of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Sense of an Ending, âan elegant memoir and meditationâ ( The New York Times Book Review ) that grapples with the most natural...
ADULT & CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE. Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon...
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from...
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his...
'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 and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with...
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing...
Arthur And George Grow Up Worlds And Miles Apart In Late Nineteenth-Century Britain: Arthur In Shabby-Genteel Edinburgh, George In The Vicarage Of A Small Staffordshire Village. Arthur Becomes A Doctor, And Then A Writer; George A Solicitor In Birmingham....
In 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...
The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers a tragicomedy about a successful businessman who wants to undo the results of his former best friendâs betrayal and get his ex-wife back. â¢...
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ⢠From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a "wickedly funnyâ novel ( The New York Times ) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets...
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE ⢠From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubertâand with tracking...