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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 imperial capital in the eighteenth... read more

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The previous November, a row of wooden beach huts, their paintwork lifted and flaked by the hard east wind, had burnt to the ground.

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One
-East Wind
-At Phil & Joanna's 1: 60/40
-Sleeping with John Updike
-At Phil and Joanna's 2: Marmalade
-Gardeners' World
-At Phil & Joanna's 3: Look, No Hands
-Trespass
-At Phil & Joanna's 4: One in Five
-Marriage Lines

Two
-The Limner
-Complicity
-Harmony
-Carcassonne
-Pulse

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  1. Julian Barnes (Author)

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