Staring at the Sun (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Staring at the Sun (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year

Pulse (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

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

Julian at the Wedding (Love Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

Metroland - Special Archive Edition (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

A special edition of Julian Barnes's 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

Nothing to be Frightened Of (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

'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 and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules

Love, Etc (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian

Flaubert's Parrot (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

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

Only Story (Barnes Julian)(Paperback)

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. | First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies

Metroland (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find

Flaubert's Parrot (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for FictionFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive

Lemon Table (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick

Man in the Red Coat (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard The 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

England, England (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of

Cross Channel (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes an enthralling set of short stories. No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian

Staring at God - Britain in the Great War (Heffer Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Masterly.' - CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT'Fascinating stuff.' - SPECTATOR'Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the Great War ever produced.' - LITERARY REVIEW'Every bit as good as its two

Pedant In The Kitchen (Barnes Julian (Author))(Paperback / softback)

'The funniest piece of food writing - my own theoretical metier - that you will ever read'. Giles Coren, The

Julian, Secret Agent (Cameron Ann)(Paperback / softback)

Julian to the rescue!Grown-ups aren't very good at solving crimes. That's why it's time for Julian, Huey and Gloria to take matters into their own hands. The crime-busting kids go on a mission to track down wanted criminals. All they need now is their first crook

Noise of Time (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

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 Big House ever

Before She Met Me (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over

Sense of an Ending (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at

History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic

Staring Directly at the Eclipse (Normal Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers. Published by Five Leaves in

Arthur & George (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

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 famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins,

Noise of Time (Barnes Julian)(Paperback)

This is Sunday Times Number One bestseller. It is a Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year. 'Barnes' Masterpiece.' (Observer). In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He