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Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached w ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Boo ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us ...Show more
Love, Etc by Julian Barnes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hello! We've met before...Yes, I am sure. Positive. About ten years ago. Stuart's right. We have met before, and his best friend Oliver, and Gillian, the woman they both loved. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole her away. In Love, etc Julian ...Show more
Metroland by Julian Barnes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third D ...Show more
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I don't believe in God, but I miss him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Pulse by Julian Barnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse famil ...Show more
Pulse by Julian Barnes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stories in Julian Barnes’ long awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In ‘East Wind’ a divorced ...Show more
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, ...Show more
The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant collection of new stories from Julian Barnes, each dealing with the nuances of life and its inevitable end. The characters in Julian Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old and facing the end of their lives - some with bitter regret, some with resignation and others still with r ...Show more