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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes
17.00 NZD
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
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
21.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good-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
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
50.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion
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
23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
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
Metroland by Julian Barnes
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A special edition of Julian Barnes' first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material. 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 ...Show more
Pulse by Julian Barnes
28.00 NZD
Category: General 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. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse famil ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
*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
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
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
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
"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
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
** 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
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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