Jane Barr Books

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Creating beautiful books for the love of reading

This is an epic adventure into the World of Alexander the Great……

Introducing
 ‘World’.

Winner of the Bronze Medal for Historical Fiction in the 2025 Global Book Awards

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World (Paperback) World (Paperback)
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World (Paperback)
$32.00

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This paperback is set in the time of Alexander the Great - many of its themes are still current in our world today.

World, A Novel, is beautifully written and a deeply researched glimpse of a lost past. A story of love, triumph and loss. World is a book to savour (Louise Ward, Wardini Books)

Cover Design by Jane Barr (photographed by Madeleine Buddo and paginated by Suné Wiehahn)

The novel was edited by Sue Copsey.

Cocktails and Peacock Feathers Cocktails and Peacock Feathers
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Cocktails and Peacock Feathers
$26.00

A paperback book with poems that have been written about Katherine Mansfield, Sport, Gardening, Abuse, Grief, Pregnancy and Labour, Loss, Laundry, A Cat, Emigration, Pinot Gris, The Dentist and many more. Beautiful cover design by Tamara Oberdries.

World (Hardback) World (Hardback)
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World (Hardback)
$46.00

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This hard back novel is set in the time of Alexander the Great. It is a lovely book to have on your shelf. Cover Design made in Amazon Cover Design.

I hope you will find this space a little like a well-worn armchair in a sunlit library or study. Here we talk of books and words, history, imagination- of stories and moments to share. This is a place where scholarship and books sit together over a cup of tea, coffee, a glass of champagne or a cocktail. Where Alexander the Great bumps shoulders with Dickensian whimsy and where the serious business of creating beautiful books is made lighter with humour and warmth. Welcome, truly to this place in space and make yourself at home.

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