You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed? In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty and insight;

From the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner, and a "Sunday Times" No.1 bestseller, "Levels of Life" is an extraordinary hybrid of history, fiction and memoir about ballooning, photography, love and grief. '...a supremely crafted artefact and a desolating guidebook to the land of loss' John Carey, "Sunday Times".