From the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner, and a "Sunday Times" No.1 bestseller, "Levels of Life" is an extraordinary hybrid of history, fiction and memoir about ballooning, photography, love and grief. '...a supremely crafted artefact and a...

Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction,...

Levels of Life von Barnes, Julian

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for FictionFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and...

In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From...

We'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 the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task...

A brilliant, moving, poignant collection of stories, from the author of CROSS CHANNEL and THE LEMON TABLE. The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex,...

There's not much worse than having to go back to school after the holidays. Except perhaps if you return and there's graffiti all over the school! And then a flea epidemic! But at least they have the Founder's Feast to look forward to....

Pulse von Barnes, Julian

Paperback edition of Barnes's very funny rumination on death, the fear of death, god, nature, nurture and his own childhood. The closest thing to a memoir he'll ever write, it was critically acclaimed in hardback and a tip ten...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, this accessible and profound novel is now published in paperback. Centring on a Victorian "cause celebre" Barnes brings the period, the case and the inner lives...

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven! von Barnes, Julian