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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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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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 >
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Flaubert's Parrot
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.00
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.00
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. Read more >
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Arthur & George
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
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 >
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.95
This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven! Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 27, 1990
Price: $15.95
This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven! Read more >
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The Lemon Table
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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England, England
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $13.95
Booker Prize Finalist
"Wickedly funny." --The New York Times
Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $13.95
Booker Prize Finalist
"Wickedly funny." --The New York Times
Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Best of Frank O'Connor
Format: Hardcover, 712 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 712 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Something to Declare
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Love, etc.
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Before She Met Me
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $15.00
At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $15.00
At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from... Read more >
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Metroland
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $11.95
Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $11.95
Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling... Read more >
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Letters from London
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $14.95
With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $14.95
With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life. Read more >
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Cross Channel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
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 >
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The Porcupine
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $11.00
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 placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political murder... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $11.00
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 placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political murder... Read more >
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Staring at the Sun
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $15.00
Read more >
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Talking It Over
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $13.95
In this powerfully affecting Flaubert's Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit. . . . It's moving, it's funny, it's frightening . . . fiction at its best."--New York Times Book Review... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1992
Price: $13.95
In this powerfully affecting Flaubert's Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit. . . . It's moving, it's funny, it's frightening . . . fiction at its best."--New York Times Book Review... Read more >
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Arthur and George
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 10, 2006
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 10, 2006
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 >
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $15.00
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Love, etc.
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
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 >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Lemon Table
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
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 >
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Something to Declare
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
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 >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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England, England
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $13.95
From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement."
Picture an England where... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $13.95
From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement."
Picture an England where... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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