Nicola Barker
Author profile
born
March 30, 1966
in The United Kingdom
gender
female
genre
|
Darkmans
— published 2007 — 8 editions |
|
|
Wide Open (Thames Gateway, #1)
— 5 editions |
|
|
Clear A Transparent Novel
— published 2004 — 6 editions |
|
|
Behindlings: A Novel (Thames Gateway, #2)
— published 2002 — 8 editions |
|
|
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
— published 2010 — 3 editions |
|
|
The Three Button Trick and Other Stories
— published 1999 — 2 editions |
|
|
Five Miles From Outer Hope
— published 2000 — 2 editions |
|
|
Heading Inland
— published 1997 — 3 editions |
|
|
Reversed Forecast
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
|
|
Small Holdings
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events.
Add an event.
“I dreamed I saw you dead in a place by the water. A ravaged place. All flat and empty and wide open. And you were covered in some kind of binding. Like a mummy. Something white and reflective, from head to toe. And the light shone on you. Oh, how it shone on you! It glanced off you, and it was like a pure, bright silver. The wind was singing. It sang: you have suffered enough. You have suffered enough. Then death came and he kissed you. Lightly. Gently. Upon the lips. There is nothing beyond, he whispered, only me, only me. There is nothing beyond. Only me.”
― Nicola Barker, Wide Open
― Nicola Barker, Wide Open
“You think it's all rather too "New Age" to be taken seriously, eh?'
'Not at all.'
'But it's an ancient discipline...'
'New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.”
― Nicola Barker, Darkmans
'Not at all.'
'But it's an ancient discipline...'
'New Age disciplines invariably are,' Beede said, disparagingly, 'but in the modern world they lack context - we just pick them up and then toss them back down again, we consume them. They have no moral claim on us. No moral value. And without that they're rendered meaningless, fatuous, even.”
― Nicola Barker, Darkmans
“And it was that self-same summer—June 5th, if precision is your watchword—that I first set eyes on a stringy southern hemisphere home-boy, a man-boy, a prankish puck by the name of La Roux (with very bad skin and even worse instincts), who sailed into the slow-beating heart of our half-arsed, high-strung, low-bred family, then casually capsized himself, but left us all drowning (now they don’t teach you that at the Sea Scouts, do they?).”
― Nicola Barker, Five Miles From Outer Hope
― Nicola Barker, Five Miles From Outer Hope
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challenge: 50 Books: Shibbie's 2010 | 37 | 134 | Dec 12, 2010 08:39pm |
Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Nicola to Goodreads.


































