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Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the ti ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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 Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
$35.00 NZD
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 Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$19.99 NZD
$34.99 (42% off)
Category: Fiction | 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
$22.99 NZD
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
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$26.00 NZD
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
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