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Darkmans
Häftad, 2008
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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 on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's jester, whose …
Reversed Forecast / Small Holdings
E-bok, 2012
31 kr
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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 `Reversed Forecast’, the prize-winning first novel from England’s greatest female comic novelist.`Small …
Behindlings
Häftad, 2003
231 kr
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A brilliantly funny novel from one of our most unconventional literary talents, Nicola Barker.Some people follow the stars. Some people follow the soaps. Some people follow rare birds, or obscure bands, or the form, or the football.Wesley prefers not to follow. He thinks that to follow anything too …
Clear
Häftad, 2005
150 kr
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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, New York Illusionist David Blaine entered a small perspex box adjacent to the River Thames and …
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
E-bok, 2010
88 kr
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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 Topping contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley in Skipton, …
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
Häftad, 2011
164 kr
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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 Topping contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley in Skipton, …
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
Ljudbok, 2010
246 kr
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From the award-winning 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 two West Yorkshire policemen – contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley behind the …
Darkmans
E-bok, 2011
159 kr
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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 on repeating, then who keeps on telling it? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's jester, whose …
Clear
A Transparent Novel
E-bok, 2011
78 kr
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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, New York Illusionist David Blaine entered a small perspex box adjacent to the River Thames and …
Three Button Trick
Selected Stories
E-bok, 2012
79 kr
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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 Enemies’.A sixteen-year-old girl, in `Layla’s Nose Job’, is burdened with a grotesque nose. But …
Behindlings
E-bok, 2011
128 kr
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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 people follow the soaps. Some people follow rare birds, or obscure bands, or the form, or the …
Heading Inland
Häftad, 2011
164 kr
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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: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet …
Wide Open
Häftad, 2011
149 kr
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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 beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bleak, but the people …
Five Miles from Outer Hope
Häftad, 2011
164 kr
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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 giant) is stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel on a tiny island off the South coast of Devon, with …
Small Holdings
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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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 Palmers Green plays host to Phil, a chronically shy gardener who feels truly at home only with his …
Love Your Enemies
Häftad, 2011
150 kr
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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 overlooked suburban Britons.Layla Carter, 16, from North London, is utterly overwhelmed by her plus-size …
Small Holdings
Häftad, 2011
150 kr
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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 Palmers Green plays host to Phil, a chronically shy gardener who feels truly at home only with his …
Reversed Forecast
Häftad, 2011
150 kr
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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 eccentric individuals – Ruby the bookie's cashier, violently disturbed (and disturbing) Vincent, …
Reversed Forecast
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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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 eccentric individuals – Ruby the bookie's cashier, violently disturbed (and disturbing) Vincent, …
Heading Inland
E-bok, 2011
88 kr
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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: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet …
Love Your Enemies
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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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 overlooked suburban Britons.Layla Carter, 16, from North London, is utterly overwhelmed by her plus-size …
Wide Open
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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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 beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bleak, but the people …
Five Miles from Outer Hope
E-bok, 2011
88 kr
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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 giant) is stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel on a tiny island off the South coast of Devon, with …
Yips
Häftad, 2013
226 kr
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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 entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist. But storm-clouds are gathering …
Yips
E-bok, 2012
128 kr
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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 entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist. But storm-clouds are gathering …
In the Approaches
E-bok, 2014
120 kr
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`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 Pett Level. Bran Cleary is a controversial Irish muralist; his fractious and promiscuous wife (and …
In the Approaches
Häftad, 2015
217 kr
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‘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 Pett Level. Bran Cleary is a controversial Irish muralist; his fractious and promiscuous wife (and …
In the Approaches
Ljudbok, 2014
252 kr
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‘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 Pett Level. Bran Cleary is a controversial Irish muralist; his fractious and promiscuous wife (and …
