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, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired.
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...
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 Big House ever return.
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 ...
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on wha...
Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parade's End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the First World War. Tracing the psychological damage inflicted by battle, the collapse of England's secure Edwardian values - embodied in Christopher's wife, the beautiful, cruel socialite Sylvia - and the beginning of a new age, epitomized by the suffragette Valentine Wannop, Parade's...
Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Juli...
"Wydaje się, że Julian Barnes zrobił dla brytyjsko-francuskich stosunków więcej niż ktokolwiek od czasów Edwarda VII" - Daily Telegraph
"Ktoś, kto pisze tak dobrze o literaturze francuskiej, o Flaubercie i o Francji, naprawdę zasługuje na Legię Honorową" - Bernard Pivot, Apostrophes
"Francuzi wprost czczą Juliana Barnesa, a my, niewystarczająco jak sądzę, tylko go podziwiamy" - Joanna Trollope
Długi i pełen namiętności związek Juliana Barnesa z Francją zaczął się ponad czterdzieści lat temu. Sceptyczny obserwator podczas rodzinnych wypraw samochodowych, nauczyciel...
"Wydaje się, że Julian Barnes zrobił dla brytyjsko-francuskich stosunków więcej niż ktokolwiek od czasów Edwarda VII" - Daily Telegraph
