Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She is the author of twelve prize-winning novels and two short story collections. She has been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Hawthornden Prizes, and was named one of Granta”s 20 Best Young British Writers. H(A)PPY, won the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize and was longlisted for the Women”s Prize for Fiction 2018; and her most recent novel is I Am Sovereign.
25 Ebook di Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker: Burley Cross Postbox Theft
From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for PC Roger T …
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Nicola Barker: Darkmans
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain’s most exciting literary talents.If history is a sick joke which keeps …
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Nicola Barker: Clear
Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. A raucous, novel about the circus surrounding David Blaine’s starvation stunt at Tower Bridge, from a Granta Best of British Novelist.On 5th September 2003, …
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Nicola Barker: Three Button Trick
The best short stories from perhaps England’s finest young female comic writer.This selection of Nicola Barker’s finest short stories contains work first published in ‘Heading Inland’ and ‘Love Your …
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Nicola Barker: Behindlings
The breakthrough novel from one of the greatest comic writers in the language – one of the twenty selected by Granta as the Best of Young British Writers 2003.Some people follow the stars. Some peopl …
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Nicola Barker: Reversed Forecast / Small Holdings
Two novels from Nicola Barker, published together in a single volume. ‘Small Holdings’: it’s all go in a little oasis of nature, in this stirring tale of subterfuge among the shrubbery – plus ‘Revers …
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Nicola Barker: Small Holdings
Hilarious, poignant and frequently surreal, Small Holdings is a is a comedy of errors from a neglected corner of everyday life by the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker.An attractive park in Pa …
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Nicola Barker: Reversed Forecast
The first novel from the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker is a tale of gambling, allergies, music and dogs, set in some of London’s less scenic locations.Chance meetings between its cast of e …
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Nicola Barker: Heading Inland
Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: …
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Nicola Barker: Love Your Enemies
From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlook …
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Nicola Barker: Wide Open
Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barker’s Thames Gateway novels.Poking out of the River Thames estuary, the strange Isle of Sheppey is home to a nudist …
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Nicola Barker: Five Miles from Outer Hope
The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers.It’s the summer of 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall (a positive girl gian …
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Nicola Barker: Yips
The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of ‘Darkmans’ and ‘The Burley Cross Postbox Theft’.2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods’ reputation is en …
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Nicola Barker: In the Approaches
‘Open yourself up again to all that terrible light and savage bliss and deafening reverberation …’In the Summer of 1971, a charismatic family seeks refuge in the quiet, English coastal backwater of …
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Nicola Barker: Behindlings
Spurting with kinetic energy, nasty wit, and kindness to animals, Wesley ought to be a star. Or so it seems to the "Behindlings" — followers who nip at his heels, turn up everywhere he goe …
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€10.57
Nicola Barker: Darkmans
“Hilarious and erudite, spooky and unconventional, Darkmans is a dazzling achievement.” — Washington Post Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating …
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Nicola Barker: Clear
On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London’s Thames River and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty p …
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Nicola Barker: Three Button Trick and Other Stories
Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the S …
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Nicola Barker & Daniel Monk: From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely oppo …
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Nicola Barker & Daniel Monk: From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely oppo …
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Nicola Barker: Cauliflower
‘Extremely ambitious’ Financial Times’An imaginative tour de force … She really is a genius’ Guardian’A delight’ New Statesman FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR NICOLA BARKERTo the world he is …
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Nicola Barker: H(A)PPY
*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN INDEPENDE …
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Nicola Barker: I Am Sovereign
__________________________________________’One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard I think it s a masterpiece.’ ALI SMITH I think Nicola Barker is incapable o …
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William Golding: Darkness Visible
The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. A figure had condensed out …
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€9.00
Nicola Barker & Dylan Evans: The Seven Deadly Sins : A Celebration of Virtue and Vice
We live with the idea of sin every day – from the greatest transgressions to the tiniest misdemeanours. But surely the concept was invented for an age where divine retribution and eternal punishment …
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