Reading this 'novel' is like going to stay with an old uncle, one with lots of stories to tell but nobody to tell them to. Little Keith - as Hitchens used to call Amis - has been waiting for... read more
A rare signed first edition, first printing in excellent condition. The book itself is in almost new condition: tight boards and pristine pages; the only blemish is a pair of tiny half cm ma... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
The author’s fourth novel, published to critical acclaim, about an amnesiac. First edition, first impression. Jonathan Cape, 1981. The book is in... read more
An updated edition of Barnes's acclaimed essays on artists - mostly French - that includes 7 new ones. Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, ... read more
A funny, self-deprecating memoir of living in Lyon (the lodestar of budding cooks), learning the ropes chez la Mere Brazier and the Institut Bocuse. The title does not refer (as far as we kn... read more