Amor & C.a | Talking It Over (Quetzal Editores, 2023; Portuguese)


Notes on this edition: Amor & C.a | Talking It Over. Lisboa: Quetzal Editores, 1994. Pp. 286 + [2]. 23.5 x 14.9 cm. Translated by Helena Cardoso. ISBN: 9789897228001. (Portuguese).

Seni Sevmiyorum | Taking It Over (Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2012; Turkish)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Seni Sevmiyorum | Taking It Over. Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2012. Pp. 271 + [1]. 19.5 x 13 cm. Translated by Serdar Rifat Kırkoğlu. ISBN: 9789755392356. (Turkish).

This is the second edition. The first edition was published in 1998.

Talking It Over (Jonathan Cape, 1991; Paperback)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Pp. 273 + [5]. 21.6 x 13.5 cm. ISBN: 0224031570.

Paperback edition published by Jonathan Cape the same year and with the same cover illustration by Fraser Taylor.

The Borzoi Reader (Alfred A. Knopf, Fall 1991)


Notes on this edition: The Borzoi Reader. Alfred A. Knopf, Fall 1991.

Complimentary promotional item containing information and an excerpt from Julian Barnes’s novel Talking It Over published by Alfred A. Knopf. The reader is pp. 48 with Barnes’s excerpt appearing on pages 4-5.

Talking It Over | Stage Adaptation (Agitprop, 1994)


Notes on this edition: Talking It Over. Adapted for the stage by Tanya Cawthorne for Agitprop in 1994. The theatre group staged the play in Hong Kong in June and July 1994. Pp. 35 (printing on single side). 29.8 x 21.4 cm.

Pictured are the spiral bound adaptation and some promotional material related to the performances. Front page of the play is modified to blur an address.

Talking It Over | BT Phonecard (Picador, 1992)


Notes on this item: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over.  Picador, 1992. 8.5 x 5.4 cm.

BT Phonecard used as a promotional item for the Picador edition of Barnes’s Talking It Over.

Prerekanja | Theatre Programme (Slovene National Theatre, 2007; Slovenian)


Notes on this edition: Prerekanja (Theatre Programme). Ljubljana: Slovene National Theatre, 2007. Pp.72. 20.9 x 19.9 cm.

Theatre programme for Prerekanja performed by the Slovene National Theatre during their 2007/08 season. Performance opened on 23 and 24 November 2007.

Directed by Boris Cavazza from the translation of the novel by Valerija Cokan. The program contains excerpts from Barnes’s novels Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. It also includes excerpts from a book on Julian Barnes by Vanessa Guignery.

Talking It Over (Vintage Books, 2009)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 273 + [7]. 19.8 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540137.

In 2009, Julian Barnes changed paperback publishers from Picador to Vintage Books.

Talking It Over (Vintage Books, 2009; Rejacketed 2013)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. Talking It Over. London: Vintage Books, 2009. Pp. 273 + [7]. 19.7 x 12.9 cm. ISBN: 9780099540137.

The copyright page states the book is a 9th printing from 2009, but Vintage reissued this redesigned (or “rejacketed”) cover for publication in 2013.

The cover design lines up with the cover art for Love, etc.

Kalbant atvirai | Talking It Over (baltos lankos, 2018; Lithuanian)


Notes on this editionJulian Barnes. Kalbant atvirai | Talking It Over. Vilnius: baltos lankos, 2018. Pp. 255 + [1]. 21.6 x 15 cm. Translated by Nijolė Regina Chijenienė. ISBN: 9786094790614. (Lithuanian).