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Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, two books of stories, two collections of essays, and a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain. His honors include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of Culture. He lives in London.
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Arthur & George
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous... Read more >
Arthur and George
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
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Before She Met Me
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $15.00
Barnes's novel about a mild-mannered historian, Graham Hendrick, who becomes obsessed with his wife's appearance from her earlier years in a low-budget film (which Graham considers "adultery") is a tautly plotted and fiendishly suspenseful application of the uncertainty principle to the domain of Eros.
"Few will be able to resist its easy... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $15.00
Barnes's novel about a mild-mannered historian, Graham Hendrick, who becomes obsessed with his wife's appearance from her earlier years in a low-budget film (which Graham considers "adultery") is a tautly plotted and fiendishly suspenseful application of the uncertainty principle to the domain of Eros.
"Few will be able to resist its easy... Read more >
Cross Channel
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $13.00
In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $13.00
In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to France as conquerors or hostages, laborers, athletes, or aesthetes, what they... Read more >
England, England
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $13.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $13.95
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England, England
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Flaubert's Parrot
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.00
Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the color of Emma Bovery's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.00
Which of two stuffed parrots was the inspiration for one of Flaubert's greatest stories? Why did the master keep changing the color of Emma Bovery's eyes? And why should these minutiae matter so much to Geoffrey Braithwaite, the crankily erudite doctor who is the narrator of this tour de force of... Read more >
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.95
It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth century France. In short, A History of the World... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.95
It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth century France. In short, A History of the World... Read more >
The Lemon Table
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $13.95
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.
The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives—some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $13.95
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.
The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives—some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances... Read more >
The Lemon Table
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Letters from London
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $14.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $14.95
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Love, etc.
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $12.00
Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human frailties and needs.
After spending a... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $12.00
Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human frailties and needs.
After spending a... Read more >
Love, etc.
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
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Metroland
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $11.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $11.95
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about... Read more >
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $24.95
Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $24.95
Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of... Read more >
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
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The Porcupine
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $11.00
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $11.00
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Something to Declare
Essays on France and French Culture
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barnes’s appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm... Read more >
Essays on France and French Culture
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barnes’s appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm... Read more >
Something to Declare
Essays on France and French Culture
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Essays on France and French Culture
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Staring at the Sun
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $15.00
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $15.00
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Talking It Over
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $13.95
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Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $13.95
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The Best of Frank O'Connor
Written by Frank O'Connor
Introduction by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 712 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.95
The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.”
Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor starts off with his most famous short story, “Guests of the Nation,” set... Read more >
Written by Frank O'Connor
Introduction by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 712 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.95
The most generous one-volume collection ever published of short stories, autobiographical writings,poetry, and essays by the writer Yeats called “Ireland’s Chekhov.”
Selected and arranged thematically by Julian Barnes, the rich mix of writings in The Best of Frank O’Connor starts off with his most famous short story, “Guests of the Nation,” set... Read more >
