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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
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
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Pulse by Julian Barnes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In ‘East Wind’ a divorced ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.In the summer of 1885, three Fren ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"BARNES' MASTERPIECE." (OBSERVER). 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 the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the B ...Show more
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
** The Sunday TimesNumber One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times /New Statesman/ Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through t ...Show more
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reviewed by Sally Another book I could not put down this year. The Only Story is, of course, about love - the pivot point of Paul's life. Now elderly and alone, with a vast and difficult bank of memories - Paul recollects his tragic love affair with Susan, 27 years his senior. If you've read Barnes befo ...Show more
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound internationally-bestselling love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction. Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or l ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner 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, c ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZETony 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, rumor, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more int ...Show more