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A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes
14.99 AUD
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
A Life With Books by Julian Barnes
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope ...Show more
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
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Category: Fiction
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
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
19.95 AUD
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
22.99 AUD
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
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
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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
24.99 AUD
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
Love, Etc by Julian Barnes
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hello! We've met before...Yes, I am sure. Positive. About ten years ago. Stuart's right. We have met before, and his best friend Oliver, and Gillian, the woman they both loved. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole her away. In Love, etc Julian ...Show more
Metroland by Julian Barnes
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third D ...Show more