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'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.

"Ce n''était que la fin octobre, mais Phil avait tenu à allumer un feu avec quelques bûches de pommier qu''ils avaient apportées de la campagne. Nous avions parlé de bonus de banquiers et des problèm

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Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart''s best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who ''talks like a dictionary'', brash and feckless. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart''s best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who ''talks like a dictionary'', brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married, but it is not long before a tentative friendship between the three evolves into something far different. Talking it Over is a brilliant and intimate account of love''s vicissitudes. It begins as a comedy of misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing us compellingly into the quagmires of the heart.

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The real wonder of this book is its apparent simplicity, its apparent slowness, the exactness and delicacy of its observations, the absolute firness of the form for the story. Of its kind - and I still don't dare to say what that kind might be - its perfect Susannah Herbert Daily Telegraph In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a compelling exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker-Preis Als Finn Adrian in die Klasse von Tony Webster kommt, schlieen die beiden Jungen schnell Freundschaft. Sex und Bucher sind die Hauptthemen, mit denen sie sich befassen, und Tony hat das Gefuhl, dass Adrian in allem etwas kluger ist als er. Auch spater, nach der Schulzeit, bleiben die beiden in Kontakt. Bis die Freundschaft ein jahes Ende findet. Vierzig Jahre spater, Tony hat eine Ehe, eine gutliche Trennung und eine Berufskarriere hinter sich, ist er mit sich im Reinen. Doch der Brief eines Anwalts, verbunden mit einer Erbschaft, erweckt plotzlich Zweifel an den vermeintlich sicheren Tatsachen der eigenen Biographie. Je mehr Tony erfahrt, desto unsicherer scheint das Erlebte und desto unabsehbarer die Konsequenzen fur seine Zukunft.

Barnes's eighth novel is a futuristic dystopian fantasy in which a corrupt businessman seeks to recreate scenes from English history as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. Eventually, the recreations

Les hilarants experiencies dun aficionat a la cuina descrites amb la prosa brillant de Julian Barnes. Qualsevol persona que hagi provat de cuinar seguint un llibre de receptes es reconeixera en les peripecies culinaries de Julian Barnes. Divertit i agut, Barnes fa de les seves aventures i desventures culinaries entre olles i cassoles un acudit constant.

« C''était son congé annuel. Ses deux jours de permission. Il s''était fait couper les cheveux comme d''hab, avait fait nettoyer son blazer comme d''hab. Il était un homme ordonné, avec des désirs et

'I don't believe in God, but I miss him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is like a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers. When Angela Carter reviewed Barnes's first novel, IMetroland,/I she praised the mature way he wrote about death. Now, nearly thirty years later, he returns to the subject in a wise , funny and constantly surprising book, which defies category and classification â€" except as Barnesian.

Autrefois, dans la famille Barnes, jamais un homme ne se serait risqué devant un fourneau. La cuisine, c'était une affaire réservée aux femmes... Mais quand Julian est parti vivre à Londres, il a dû s'y mettre et on peut dire désormais que ses progrès ont été spectaculaires, sinon rapides... Un des plus célèbres écrivains anglais d'aujourd'hui va nous livrer ici le désopilant récit de ses trouvailles (parfois curieuses, voir le saumon aux raisins secs), de ses échecs (souvent savoureux, voir pourquoi il a raté le lièvre à la sauce au chocolat) et de ses coups de gueule (ah, ces livres de cuisine tous aussi imprécis les uns que les autres !). Celui qui se définit comme un " obsessionnel anxieux " nous fait partager ses angoisses et bien sûr ses enthousiasmes - en nous livrant au passage de bien délicieux secrets.

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 and a Sunday Times bestseller - this is a brilliant novel from a writer at the very height of his powers.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. He''s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He''s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer''s letter is about to prove.