Christopher Lloyd wächst in Metroland auf, dem Londoner Vorort, der von der Metropolitan Line bedient wird. Er und Tony gehen in die gleiche Klasse - und heben sich von den anderen Schülern ab, indem sie sich in Weltverachtung üben. Nach...

»Das meine ich nicht. Ich meine, ich will nicht bloß eine Affäre mit dir haben. Affären - Affären sind - ich weiß auch nicht -, wie wenn man sich eine Ferienwohnung in Marbella zur Teilnutzung kauft oder so.«Oliver und Stuart sind...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

"We're going to be fine." He looks around, but there's nothing out here: nothing but the bottomless black universe on their left, the Earth suspended in glorious technicolour to their right. Carys and Max have ninety minutes of air left....