Julian Barnes

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In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent' Read more

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Julian Barnes

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for ou Read more

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Julian Barnes
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 n Read more

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks Read more

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Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.

First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At Read more

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Julian Barnes gidst ons in ‘De man in de rode mantel’ door een van zijn lievelingstijdperken, de Belle Époque, in deze geestige, rijk geïllustreerde, onconventionele biografie van dokter Samuel Jean Pozzi (1846-1918). Dokter van de beau monde Read more

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As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre c Read more

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In ‘Engeland, Engeland’ van Julian Barnes bedenkt een roekeloze zakenman een groots project waarmee hij zijn carrière kan afsluiten. Het eiland Wight wordt opgekocht en omgebouwd tot een historisch themapark: replica’s van onder andere de Big Read more