Cross Channel

Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic

ContentsThe Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · The Door · E. B. White · Mysterious Kôr · Elizabeth Bowen · Nights at Serampore · Mircea Eliade ·The Dead Fiddler · Isaac Bashevis Singer · The Phoenix · S

The Lemon Table

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, others

The Pedant In The Kitchen

The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to in

Something to Declare: Essays on France

Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as cl

Metroland

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 us c

Staring At The Sun

Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. This novel enables readers to follow her experience in marriage, her questioning of male trut

Letters from London

With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infinite v

My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories

This Collection of Stories includes the following:The GeniusMy Oedipus ComplexFirst ConfessionThe Study of HistoryThe Man of the WorldGuests of the NationMachine-Gun Corps in actionSoirée Chez une Belle Jeune FilleJumbo's WifeThe Cornet-Player Who Betray

In the Land of Pain

As Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays “ate at the top literary table” during his lifetime (1840–1897). Henry James described him as “the happies