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The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening StandardThe 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.In the summer of 1885, three Fren ...Show more
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
** The Sunday TimesNumber One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times /New Statesman/ Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through t ...Show more
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: good
"BARNES' MASTERPIECE." (OBSERVER). 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 B ...Show more
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Reviewed by Sally Another book I could not put down this year. The Only Story is, of course, about love - the pivot point of Paul's life. Now elderly and alone, with a vast and difficult bank of memories - Paul recollects his tragic love affair with Susan, 27 years his senior. If you've read Barnes befo ...Show more
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound internationally-bestselling love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction. Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or l ...Show more
The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes (although he might, in a bur ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZETony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumor, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more int ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, c ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, tradin ...Show more
Through the Window by Julian Barnes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Heming ...Show more