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A Life With Books by Julian Barnes
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 and George by Julian Barnes
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
England, England by Julian Barnes
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, fr ...Show more
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
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
50.00 NZD
Category: Art History
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
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'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
Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
29.95 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
This work is an elegant account of Julian Barnes' search for gastronomic precision. It is a quest that leaves him seduced by Jane Grigson, infuriated by Nigel Slater and reassured by Mrs Beeton's Victorian virtues. For anyone who has ever been defeated by a cookbook.
Pulse by Julian Barnes
49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
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
Something to Declare by Julian Barnes
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes. Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaub ...Show more