In the course of what is, superficially, an ordinary life, whose dates span the 1920s to the year 2021, Jean Serjeant, a woman of exceptional curiosity, muses on diverse questions, great and small

Staring at the Sun (Perennial Fiction Library)

BARNES,JULIAN

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Smirking and cynical adolescents who loafed around London, Christopher and Toni transform into adults of quite a different sort

Metroland

McGraw=Hill

Before she met me

Graham was an historian: he was meant to be an expert on the past. But there were aspects of it, he discovered, that couldn't be subdued, that simply carried on, lively and painful, as if they were the present. He began to mind. He minded very much indeed. While those around him look on - with concern, with contempt, with amusement - Graham's meticulous passion gradually begins to run out of control. Julian Barnes presents an unnerving version of sexual jealousy and shows it to be not just living, but reasonable, ordinary, funny, dangerous and consuming.

Before She Met Me

McGraw-Hill Companies

From the blurb: ".. a richly inventive, wonderfully intelligent book. A profound and wildly comic meditation on the life and art of Flaubert, and on the elusiveness of the past - among many other things. A deep pleasure to read."

Flaubert's Parrot

Contemporary

Signed by the author, Waterstone's Signed label on marked and worn front cover, 3rd printing, page edges tanned . Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Arthur & George

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books

Arthur and George

"I cannot remember when I enjoyed a first novel more." --Daily Telegraph Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland, the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. Longing for real life to begin, we follow Christopher to Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love, leading, to Toni's disappointment, back to Metroland.

Literary

"A remarkably original and subtle novel." --Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books      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 inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but history has always mattered to him.

A classic work by a great British author, published for the first time by Vintage. Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey and his own life.

From the Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.

Staring at the Sun

Vintage Books USA

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Staring at the Sun (Perennial Fiction Library)

Metroland

Before She Met Me

Flaubert's Parrot

Arthur & George

Arthur and George

Metroland

Before She Met Me

Flaubert's Parrot

Staring at the Sun