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Julian Barnes
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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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…
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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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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…
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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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A new book from one of our most acclaimed writers.
'We always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world…
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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…
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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…
Mikhail Lermontov
'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian'…
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…
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…
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.
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
Calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration.
Julian Rothenstein, Julian Barnes
Curated by novelist Julian Barnes, the celebrated cult diary explores the mysteries and complexities of family bonds
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‘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…
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…
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…
Matthew Pateman
This study provides an overview of Barnes’ career and then offers a discussion of each of the novels written in his own name.
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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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
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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Merritt Moseley
Surveys the career of Julian Barnes - an innovative British novelist who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize on three occasions.
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…
Collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents throughout the world with the author of such highly praised novels as Flaubert’s Parrot. The interviews collectively address…
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…
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…
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…
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One summer in the sixties, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and joins the tennis club at his mother’s urging. He’s partnered with Mrs. Susan Mcleod, a fine player who’s…
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…
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. The characters are facing the ends of…
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…
The author of Talking It Over trains his laser-bright intelligence and phosphorescent prose on the ambiguities raised by the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. His literary energy and daring…
Graham Hendrick, an historian, becomes obsessed with discovering all of the men his actress wife, Ann, loved before him.
In this powerfully affecting Flaubert’s Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. An interplay of serious thought and dazzling…
