num_pages: 27
description: Julian Barnes one of Britains most distinguished novelists is also an acclaimed essayist. A Life with Books is an essay specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week supplied exclusively to independent bookshops. In it Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope that it will survive.A Life with Books is published as a pamphlet with cover art by Suzanne Dean the renowned designer responsible for the cover of Julian Barnes Man Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.
language: English
title: A Life with Books
publisher: Jonathan Cape