'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about...

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

Offers an unofficial account of Noah's Ark and his Voyage, which explains about how the human race has subsequently developed. von Barnes, Julian