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A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are re ...Show more
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
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 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but ...Show more
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Category: Classics
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the ti ...Show more
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working o ...Show more
Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
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 Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, f ...Show more
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
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 heartWe'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.She will change the way you see the world. 'The task of th ...Show more
England, England by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Booker 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, ...Show more
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
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 novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer ...Show more
Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World by Julian Barnes
Category: Classics
Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns 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.A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters blends fact and fiction in a vir ...Show more
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
Category: Art
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached w ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction
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 aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us ...Show more