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Nightwood is not only a classic of modernist literature, but was also acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Elio

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has be

In ‘Elizabeth Finch’ van Julian Barnes is Neil op een kruispunt in zijn leven aanbeland wanneer hij besluit opnieuw plaats te nemen in de collegebanke

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In ‘Een geschiedenis van de wereld in 10,5 hoofdstuk’ schetst Julian Barnes het verhaal van een verstekeling aan boord van de ark van Noach die versla

Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentri

"Now this be a Tale of as fine a Wench as ever wet Bed . . . Thus begins this Almanack, which all Ladies should carry about with them, as the Priest h

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

In ‘Flauberts papegaai’ van Julian Barnes raakt Geoffrey Braithwaite, een ouder wordende arts wiens vrouw is overleden, gefascineerd door het leven en

In zijn beroemde boek The History of the World in 100 Animals beschreef journalist en auteur Simon Barnes de 100 dieren die de belangrijkste rol hebbe

A is for Acceptance! B is for Belonging! C is for Celebrate!ABC Pride introduces little readers to the alphabet through the colourful world of Pride.

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.

A major new book on the sensational Portland Spy Ring and its famous trial in 1961

Demonstrates the continuing importance of the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition - all the main thinkers from Thales to the Sophi

In ‘Flauberts papegaai’ van Julian Barnes raakt Geoffrey Braithwaite, een ouder wordende arts wiens vrouw is overleden, gefascineerd door het leven en

Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up. Christopher and Toni found in each o

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, th

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; A compelling weave of fict

In 2008 verloor Julian Barnes zijn geliefde vrouw na dertig jaar huwelijk. Hoogteverschillen gaat over die liefde en dat verdriet, maar ook over lucht