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1	History of the World in 10-1/2 Chapters more books like this by Julian Barnes A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the 1981 Somerset Maughan Award and "Flaubert's Parrot" which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Nothing to Be Frightened of more books like this by Julian Barnes Two years after the bestselling "Arthur & George," Barnes presents an essay on mortality that touches on faith, science, and family, as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who have confronted the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. see all copies from £13.54! new only from £13.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	England, England more books like this by Julian Barnes As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. In Julian Barnes's new novel, the 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 containing everything 'English', from Buck House to Stonehenge, from ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Arthur & George more books like this by Julian Barnes Arthur and George grow up in different parts of Britain, and each follows a different path as he comes of age and grows into adulthood. But at a crucial point in their lives, the two meet--and, gradually, the reader discovers who these two really are. Julian Barnes's 10th novel is both a closely detailed study of character and an eye-opening sweep ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £3.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Flauberts Parrot more books like this by Julian Barnes A retired English doctor, in solitary widowhood, makes a pilgrimage through the life and art of Gustave Flaubert, whose work he has always venerated. As he meditates on his passion, he reveals as much about himself as he uncovers about Flaubert. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Talking It Over more books like this by Julian Barnes A triangular love relationship is described in turn by each of the three participants: Gillian, Stuart, and Oliver. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Staring at the sun more books like this by Julian Barnes This novel about an ordinary woman, Jean Serjeant, who believes the world is anything but ordinary, chronicles her life from childhood to her late nineties. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Porcupine more books like this by Barnes Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary stands for the new ideals, the leader for the old or so one would think. But Petkanov is different. He has been given his day in court and he takes it with a vengeance, to the increasing discomfort and surprise of those around him. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	In the Land of Pain more books like this by Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes (Translator) Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a teenager when he contracted syphilis, and 25 years later he found himself victim of a highly painful spin-off from the original disease, known as tabes dorsalis. In his diaries, he recounted his suffering and his futile search for a cure during the 12 years it took him to die. Julian Barnes has translated and ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £3.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Before She Met Me more books like this by Julian Barnes At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £2.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Metroland more books like this by Julian Barnes Julian Barnes's first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling English suburbia. He grows up to be a young man whose main ambition, to be outrageous, evolves into a competition with a friend, in which they bet money on who can be more shocking. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Letters from London: 1990-1995 more books like this by Julian Barnes Since 1990 Julian Barnes has written a regular 'Letter from London' for the "New Yorker" magazine. These already celebrated pieces cover subjects as diverse as the Lloyd's insurance disaster, the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher, the troubles of the Royal Family and the hapless Nigel Short in his battle with Gary Kasparov in the 1993 World Chess ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £1.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Love, Etc more books like this by Julian Barnes There used to be two sides to every story. Now there are three...In "Talking It Over", Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In "Love, etc", Jillian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £5.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Something to Declare more books like this by Julian Barnes Eighteen witty and brilliant essays on France from Julian Barnes; Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with France began more than forty years ago. As sceptical observer on family motoring holidays, assistant in a school in Brittany, student of the language and literature, author of Flaubert's Parrot and Cross Channel, he has criss ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £3.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Cross channel more books like this by Julian Barnes This is a collection of ten short stories with a linking theme: the British in France through several centuries. It opens with a group of mercenary soldiers engaged in a punitive expedition against a Protestant village in southern France in the late seventeenth century, and closes with a journey on the antiquated Eurostar express to Paris in the ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £5.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Pedant in the Kitchen more books like this by Julian Barnes This work is an elegant account of Julian Barnes' search for gastronomic precision. It is a quest that leaves him seduced by Jane Grigson, infuriated by Nigel slater and reassured by Mrs Beeton's Victorian virtues. For anyone who has ever been defeated by a cookbook. see all copies from £5.17! new only from £11.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture more books like this by Julian Barnes Julian Barnes, an unashamed fan of the French--their literature, language, food, and national character--writes about all that and more in these essays, which were originally published in the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £8.54! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Lemon Table more books like this by Julian Barnes If Julian Barnes' new collection of stories has a theme it is 'rage in age'. Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of death. At the 'lemon table' (a coinage of Sibelius, protagonist of the final story) it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death, and each of Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £9.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Letters from London more books like this by Barnes With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary London life. see all copies from £1.55! new only from £9.78! \| first editions
20 view cover	Cross Channel: Stories more books like this by Julian Barnes A sequence of ten short stories about the experience British subjects in France. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £9.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Lemon Table: Stories more books like this by Julian Barnes Master prose stylist Julian Barnes presents a collection of stories whose characters are growing old and facing the end of their lives--some with bitterness, some with resignation, and others with raging defiance. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £8.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Something to Declare: Essays on France more books like this by Julian Barnes Julian Barnes, an unashamed fan of the French--their literature, language, food, and national character--writes about all that and more in these essays, which were originally published in the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. see all copies from £5.93! new only from £8.72! \| first editions
23 view cover	Coffee with Aristotle more books like this by Jonathan Barnes, Julian Barnes (Foreword by) More than two millennia after his death, Aristotle's thought still influences modern society. Here, over coffee, he converses with refreshing and illuminating simplicity about everything from causation and deduction to the role of women and the wonders of the natural world. see all copies from £3.10! new only from £5.57!
24	A Man in Full by Julian Barnes see all copies from £1.40!
25	Inglaterra, Inglaterra by Julian Barnes see all copies from £9.08! new only from £9.81!

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