Jean-Pierre Aoustin Orden de los libros (cronológico)

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

?Preferira̕s amar ms̀ y sufrir ms̀ o amar menos y sufrir menos? Creo que, en definitiva, esa es la n︢ica cuestin̤, reflexiona al inicio de la novela su protagonista. En la dčada de los sesenta, cuando tena̕ diecinueve aǫs y regres ̤de la universidad para pasar el verano en casa de sus padres, Paul se apunt ̤a un club de tenis en el que conoci ̤a Susan Macleod, de cuarenta y ocho aǫs, casada no muy felizmente y con dos hijas ya mayores.

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. They all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age and he is finding that memory is imperfect.

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.

En 1903, un suceso notorio sacude la calma de un pueblo de la Inglaterra profunda: varios animales aparecen brutalmente mutilados. LA incompetencia de la policía y el peso de los rumores convierten a George Edalji, el hijo de un vicario parsi, en el principal sospechoso. El caso llegará a los oídos de Arthur Conan Doyle, el creador de Sherlock Holmes, quien tomará el relevo de su personaje para emprender una investigación en busca de una verdad muy escurridiza.

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.

Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." --The New York Times Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the tower of London). Martha Cochrane, hired as one of Sir Jack's resident "no-people," ably assists him in realizing his dream. But when this land of make-believe gradually gets horribly and hilariously out of hand, Martha develops her own vision of the perfect England. Julian Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.

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.