Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of...

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,...

The Sense of an Ending von Barnes, Julian

Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as...

Since he began writing about art in 1989, Julian Barnes has penned a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists. In the process, he unwittingly retraced the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and...

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,...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of "A Sense of An Ending", comes a terribly sad new novel about a young man who falls in love with a much older woman. In the early 1960s, 19-year old Paul falls in love with 48-year old Susan...

Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from naive, carefree country girl before the war to old age in 2020, following her experiences of marriage, motherhood and life. von Barnes, Julian

In his latest novel, Julian Barnes, author of Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is...

Das Stachelschwein

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,...

A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. von Barnes, Julian