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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
Keeping an Eye Open Essays on Art
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
Flaubert's Parrot
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
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
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
Through the Window Seventeen Essays (and one short story)
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
Levels of Life
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
The Noise of Time
Editura: W F Howes Ltd
Anul aparitiei: 2016
Page dim. 141 x 166 x 17 Weight: 162 grams
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
The Sense of an Ending
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
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
Death Vintage Minis
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
The Only Story
Anul aparitiei: 2018
Page dim. 144 x 170 x 28 Weight: 210 grams
Editura: Random House
Anul aparitiei: 2019
Page dim. 112 x 177 x 27 Weight: 154 grams
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
The Man in the Red Coat
Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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
Talking it Over
Editura: Bolinda Publishing
Page dim. 137 x 124 x 12 Weight: 66 grams
Anul aparitiei: 2021
Page dim. 129 x 197 x 27 Weight: 450 grams