Julian Barnes

As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in …

This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities and tendencies. After success with the main novels of Haruki Murakami, Naxos AudioBooks …

Il pappagallo di Flaubert è un romanzo di Julian Barnes del 1984. Il romanzo venne considerato nella selezione finale per il Booker Prize di quell'anno. Il romanzo vede come protagonista Geoffrey Braithwaite, studioso amatoriale della vita di Gustave Flaubert, alla ricerca del vero pappagallo impagliato che aveva …

England, England è un romanzo di Julian Barnes del 1998, finalista al Booker Prize dello stesso anno. Il romanzo esplora l'idea di replicare l'Inghilterra in un parco a tema sull'Isola di Wight. Analizza le questioni dell'identità nazionale, l'invenzione della tradizione, la creazione dei miti e l'autenticità della …

Talking It Over is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 1991, it won the Prix Femina Étranger the following year. It concerns a love triangle in which each of the three people concerned take it in turns to tell the story from their perspective using first person narrative. Stuart and Oliver have been best friends …

Love, etc is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 2000, although it is also the title of a French film based on his earlier novel Talking it Over.

Metroland è un romanzo di Julian Barnes del 1980. Nel 1997 è stato realizzato un adattamento cinematografico del romanzo, con Christian Bale e Emily Watson.

A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is “the most …

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for …

The Lemon Table is the second collection of short stories produced by Julian Barnes, and has the general theme of old age. It was first published in 2004 by Jonathan Cape.