獲2011年布克獎本書是Barnes對回憶的沉思，一位看似平凡的中年男人，在生命的後半段意外獲得一項「遺產」。他發現長久以來的回憶都被掩蓋了一半，而隨著其他記憶浮現，他也必須面對生命的真相。今年的評審主席Dame Stella Rimington稱本書「擁有一切英語經典必備的素質，寫法精緻、情節細微、每次重讀都呈現不同的深度。」~~文匯報Winner of the 2011 Man Booker
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker PrizeBy 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 & Geor
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 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, trad
Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the worl
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker PrizeA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James
Soon to be a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old conce
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its v
The weight of what is to come is unbearable. It is crushing me.The sound of the crying, it never ceases. I carry this inside and now tell only you.Charles, a disgraced New York Times journalist, arriv
***SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING ANNE HATHAWAY AND NICHOLAS GALITZINE*** TREAT YOURSELF WITH THIS SCORCHING HOT LOVE AFFAIR ABOUT THE MAN THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT . . .'THIS SLAYED ME' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS' 5***** Reader Review 'SUMMER'S SAUCIEST, SEXIEST READ' Red 'THE ENDING . . .I'M NOT OVER IT' 5***** Reader Review''I'M MADLY IN LOVE WITH THIS NOVEL' Curtis SittenfeldTHE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS HIS NAME. BUT IT'S YOU HE WANTS. To the media, Hayes Campbell is the star of a record-breaking British boyband.To his fans, he's the naughty-but-nice front man - whose dimples and outlandish dress sense drive them crazy. To Solène Marchand, he's just the pretty face that's plastered over every girl's bedroom wall. Until a chance meeting throws them together .. . The attraction is instant.The chemistry is electric. The affair is Solène's secret. But how long can it stay that way?_______'Thi
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him thro
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower p
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower p
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pa
An extraordinary collection—hawk-eyed and understanding—from the Man Booker Prize–winning, best-selling author ofThe Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life.As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed th
An extraordinary collection—hawk-eyed and understanding—from the Man Booker Prize–winning, best-selling author ofThe Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life.As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed th
The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can e
