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Barnes Julian

The Lemon Table

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table', it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of the characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. Page dim. Weight: 393 grams

Barnes Julian

Keeping an Eye Open Essays on Art

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2015

Fully illustrated in colour throughout, this book contains essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud. Page dim. 231 x 153 x 29 Weight: 700 grams

Clough Arthur Hugh, Barnes Julian

Amours de Voyage

Editura: Persephone Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Page dim. 192 x 141 x 13 Weight: 196 grams

Barnes Julian

Flaubert's Parrot

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for FictionFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality. Page dim. 163 x 123 x 15 Weight: 174 grams

Barnes Julian

Flaubert's Parrot

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. Page dim. 208 x 131 x 13 Weight: 142 grams

Barnes Julian

The Lemon Table

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a correspondence with an author that enriches both their lives - all Barnes' characters, in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light.

Barnes Julian (Author)

The Pedant In The Kitchen

Editura: Atlantic Books

Anul aparitiei: 2013

'The funniest piece of food writing - my own theoretical metier - that you will ever read'. Giles Coren, The Times Page dim. 131 x 198 x 12 Weight: 158 grams

Barnes Julian

Through the Window Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2012

From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, the author considers what fiction is, and what it can do. Page dim. 197 x 132 x 20 Weight: 252 grams

Barnes Julian

Levels of Life

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2014

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; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty and insight; Page dim. 193 x 122 x 9 Weight: 114 grams

Barnes Julian

The Noise of Time

Editura: W F Howes Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Page dim. 141 x 166 x 17 Weight: 162 grams

Barnes Julian

The Noise of Time

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Page dim. 198 x 135 x 14 Weight: 168 grams

Barnes Julian

The Sense of an Ending

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Page dim. 131 x 197 x 12 Weight: 158 grams

Barnes Julian

The Noise of Time

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Page dim. 111 x 177 x 20 Weight: 134 grams

Barnes Julian

Death Vintage Minis

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. It reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Page dim. 181 x 123 x 8 Series: Vintage Minis Weight: 76 grams

Barnes Julian

The Only Story

Editura: W F Howes Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2018

Page dim. 144 x 170 x 28 Weight: 210 grams

Barnes Julian

The Only Story

Editura: Random House

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Page dim. 112 x 177 x 27 Weight: 154 grams

Barnes Julian

The Only Story

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2019

At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart. Page dim. 128 x 196 x 17 Weight: 196 grams

Barnes Julian

The Man in the Red Coat

Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Anul aparitiei: 2019

The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. Page dim. 212 x 169 x 32 Weight: 874 grams

Barnes Julian

Talking it Over

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2015

Page dim. 137 x 124 x 12 Weight: 66 grams

Barnes Julian

The Man in the Red Coat

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Page dim. 129 x 197 x 27 Weight: 450 grams