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A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
$19.98 AUD
Category: Literature
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
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
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
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
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
$26.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
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Category: No Category
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
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$36.95 (18% off)
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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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art Craft Photography
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
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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
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford; Julian Barnes (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parade's End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
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Category: Literature
** 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 Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"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