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A Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain damaged, posses

In The Changeling, Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe takes readers from the forests of southern Japan to the washed-out streets of Berlin as he investigates the impact our real and imagined pasts have on our lives.
Writer Kogito Choko is in his six

Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in sear

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.

This intense n

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.

First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’

In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.

The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives–some with bitter regret, other

"Talking It Over" is the story of three Londoners: one woman, two men, all near the age of thirty (give or take a few years), who, despite their basic differences - Gillian is reserved, Stuart is a bit pedantic, Oliver leans toward flamboyance -

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.

From an impe

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of

Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011

Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Co

Jerry Batson, qui se définit comme un « accoucheur d'idées », va en vendre une assez sensationnelle à sir Jack Pitman, un excentrique milliardaire : créer sur l'île de Wight une sorte de gigantesque parc d'attractions rassemblant tout ce qu

In these stories, Julian Barnes takes as his universal theme the British in France - the fascination with the country, the reasons for being there, and the sometimes ambiguous reception.

Graham was an historian: he was meant to be an expert on the past. But there were aspects of it, that couldn't be subdued, that simply carried on, lively and painful, as if they were the present. He minded very much indeed. This book presents a versi

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,

Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from hi

The best way to get over a man is to get under another one?
Not for this girl.

Check out my break-up list:

1. Get a new job
2. Move away
3. Don't add a new man to this list

There's no way I'm risking my heart again.
Until I mee

Technically, I might be breaking and entering,
I didn't come down the chimney.
And I'm no Ho (Ho Ho)
But I did get my hands on his . . . Surprise Package.

When I arrive at my remote holiday cottage,
I don't expect to find a hot Scots

From the French countryside to Manhattan, falling for my one-night stand wasn’t supposed to be the plan.

Dear Mr Hayes,

I’m sorry you found me floating in your bathtub last night.
And that you didn’t realize I was housesitting.
I’m also sorry I cr

A charming playboy. A girl on the run from love. A one night stand that wasn't enough.

Cheated on by her fiancé, teacher Kate spent the night under a new man to prove she was over the old. He was supposed to be her rebound. Her Mr Right-Now, but h

A bad boy trying to be good and a good girl determined to break ALL his rules

There are a few things I regret in my life. Okay, more than a few. Like . . .

1. Waiting for Prince Charming.
2. Saving my virginity for our wedding night.
3. Then findi

Dear birthday gods,
I’d like my very own Australian experience, if you know what I mean.
One with a panty-melting accent and a very wicked grin.
The icing on my birthday cake would be if he takes a trip down under tonight . . .

My birthday was four-

Reasons not to sleep with Flynn Phillips. Again.

1. He’s cocky.
2. He’s annoying.
3. And I can’t stand his Australian a$$!

I can’t stop thinking about it either . . .

Since our wedding hook-up months ago,
He’s ruined me!
My O has gone—it’s be

Captain Ben Monroe has an a$$ made for touching,
And a panty-dropping smile.
He's also my best friend's younger brother.
And the worst mistake of my life.

Or maybe the best.
It's hard to tell.

He was a blight on my childhood.
A t

I used to think that true love was like Santa Claus.
As in, make believe.
That stockings were for peeling off.
Not filling up.
And that stuffing . . . Well, I’m sure you see where I’m going with that.
But this Christmas everything’s changing.
We’re