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Nicola Barker
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born
in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, The United Kingdom
March 30, 1966
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Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)
— published 2007 — 10 editions |
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Wide Open (Thames Gateway, #1)
— published 1998 — 10 editions |
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The Yips
— published 2012 — 10 editions |
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Clear: A Transparent Novel
— published 2004 — 7 editions |
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Behindlings (Thames Gateway, #2)
— published 2002 — 12 editions |
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Burley Cross Postbox Theft
— published 2010 — 5 editions |
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Five Miles From Outer Hope
— published 2000 — 5 editions |
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The Three Button Trick and Other Stories
— published 1999 — 6 editions |
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Heading Inland
— published 1996 — 4 editions |
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Small Holdings
— published 1995 — 6 editions |
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“Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......”
― Nicola Barker, The Yips
― Nicola Barker, The Yips
“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
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