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Julian Barnes

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.A 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 at his best, and is a stunning achievem...

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Barnes

Welcome to the Club: A Menopause ThrillerWhether You Want to or NotMenopause doesn't knock politely. It kicks the door down.Welcome to the Club: A Menopause Thriller is a smart, funny, and refreshingly honest look at the messy, maddening, and often unspoken realities of menopause, told by someone living it, from the inside out.This is not a medical guide.Nor a wellness manifesto.And it's definitely n...

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Jimmy Barnes

A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and violent childhood, which fue...

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Tommy Barnes

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The Braslou Biere Chronicles

Loving this read'. Tom Gilbey. 'Delicious' Daily Telegraph. From French wine country to the rugged North Cornwall coast - a story of beer, family, exile, longing, and second chances… Four years after establishing Braslou Bière, a British microbrewery in the heart of the Loire, covid hits and Tommy and Rose are forced to make the agonising decision to return to England. Landing in a cramped cottage in scenic Padstow, their pets rehomed and their young children unsettled, Tommy finds himself...

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Sophie Barnes

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House of Croft

The only thing more lethal than his need for revenge is the woman who's tasked with bringing him down.A series of murders. A dangerous criminal empire. And a woman intent on Adrian Croft's destruction.Adrian Croft never wanted the criminal empire he was destined to inherit. He dreamed of leaving London behind, settling down, and raising a family far from a life of crime. But when tragedy destroys everything he hoped for, revenge be...

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Jimmy Barnes

It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life as he leaves Adelaide in the back of an old truck with a then unknown band called Cold Chisel.A spellbinding and searingly honest reflection ...

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Julian Barnes

**On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame.“A culmination . . . shimmering with [Barnes’s] silky, erudite prose; beneath the suave surface is an earnest investigation into the mysterious ways of the human heart.” —The Atlantic**Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he i...

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Margaret Barnes

"This is a great book about a great American hero. It was my privilege to portray Sheriff Lamar Potts in the movie Murder in Coweta County." -Johnny Cash"A thrilling experience for me." -Andy Griffith"One of the best crime trial recreations ever written." -Chicago Sun-TimesMurder in Coweta County received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Special Award as an outstanding fact-crime study by the Mystery Writers of America and has been used in sociology and criminal law cour...

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Debra Barnes

What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart.When Germany invades France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, but they cling together, never certain when the authorities will come f...

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Sophie Barnes

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The Crawfords

He's everything she's trying to avoid…But somehow precisely what she needs…Caleb Crawford doesn't want to be a duke. He'd much rather build houses for a living. So when fate disrupts his peaceful life and burdens him with the responsibilities of a newly inherited title, he does what any sensible man would do by fleeing London, disguising himself as a laborer, and seeking refuge with three young spinsters who need his help with a leaky roof.Ruined by a marqu...

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Julian Barnes

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Vintage International

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending delivers “fiction at its best” (The New York Times Book Review) in an unforgettable novel about two best friends and the beautiful woman who comes between them.First there’s Stuart, stolid, conventional, but not quite so dull as he pretends to be. Then there is Oliver, his glamorous, epigrammatic best friend. And veering wildly between them is Gillian, the cryptic beauty who ma...

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Andrew Barnes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day work week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy.Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity req...