Jean-Pierre Aoustin Book order (chronological)

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in slightly different form by Johnathan Cape, ... London, in 2019"--Copyright page.

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's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

Now 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 Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.

Des champs de bataille de la Somme aux vignobles bordelais en passant par le Paris des surréalistes, quand les Anglais traversent la Manche pour parcourir la France, cela donne des situations tantôt cocasses, tantôt touchantes, mais toujours surprenantes. Trois nouvelles savoureuses et pleines d'humour du plus francophile des écrivains britanniques.

A novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know.

A collection of essays on France from Julian Barnes. Written over a 20 year period, the topics Barnes covers range from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song to the Tour de France.

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. In Julian Barnes's new novel, the grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Buck House to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the White Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky and vastly successful. Indeed it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and threatens to supersede it. 'Both ambitious and serious -- real if you like. Dive at those dump-bins.' Andrew Marr, Observer 'A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy.' Economist 'There is no more intelligent writer on the literary scene. In this novel he is also moving. He has written nothing more poignant and enticing.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'The novel has memorable characters and sentences, but its main impact will be through its penetrating ideas.' John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph

Biografije se obično pišu o poznatim osobama, često mrtvima, koje biografi nikada nisu upoznali. Ova biografija, međutim, fokusira se na potpuno nepoznatu osobu, Isabel Rogers, koju njezin biograf dobro poznaje. Isabel živi u Londonu, uživa u mlijeku u pubovima, pliva jednom tjedno i želi više čitati, ali nema vremena. Iako njezin život na prvi pogled izgleda nezanimljivo, dovoljno je intrigantan za biografiju. Nakon što ga njegova bivša djevojka optuži za narcisoidnost, pripovjedač shvaća koliko je vremena potrošio proučavajući slavne, zanemarujući one koje poznaje. Odlučuje napisati biografiju prve osobe koja uđe u njegov život. Pisanje biografije donosi brojna pitanja: je li prvi dojam dobar, zašto Isabel često mijenja priču, kako pravilno opisati tuđi život i kako muškarac može razumjeti životni cilj žene? Ovaj duhovit i zanimljiv pristup pisanju biografije otkriva koliko je takvo pisanje površno i arbitrarno, temeljeći se na ljudskoj želji da se otkriju tajne drugih. Alain de Botton, poznat po svojoj originalnosti i oštrini zapažanja, donosi jedinstven uvid u ovaj žanr.