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Ros Barber

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Novelist, both historical and speculative fiction. Debut novel The Marlowe Papers (2012) was winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2013, joint winner of the Author's Club Best First Novel Award 2013, long-listed for the 2013 Women's Fiction Prize (formerly the Orange Prize).

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Second novel, Devotion (2015) was short-listed for the Encore Award 2015.

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Forthcoming: The Tragical History of Nothing (2022), a fictional autobiography and origin story of the 18th-century pirate Mary Read.

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Non-fiction: literary history/biography, specialising in Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Editor and co-author of 30-Second Shakespeare (UK) / Know-it-All Shakespeare (US). Author of Shakespeare: The Evidence and the Coursera MOOC Introduction to Who Wr ...more

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	The Marlowe Papers 3.69 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devotion 3.64 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	30-Second Shakespeare: 50 Key Aspects of His Work, Life, and Legacy, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Ros Barber (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Rylance (Foreword) 3.43 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Know It All Shakespeare: 50 Key Aspects of the Bard's Works, Life Legacy, Each Explained in Under a Minute by Ros Barber (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Rylance (Foreword) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	30-Second Shakespeare: The 50 key aspects of his works, life and legacy, each explained in half a minute by Ros Barber (Goodreads Author), Mark Rylance (Foreword) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Material 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Things Are on Thursday 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“We will discover nothing if we bind ourselves to accepted wisdoms. Questioning is necessary for discovery.”
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“How should words
presume themselves as bandages and slings
when the world limps onward, and you've darkened it?
And words be damned, for if we're 'gentle men'
then what hope does the world have? Words are lost.
They've plucked their eyes out rather than see this,
have jumped from clifftops.”
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“The silence between them thickens. He knows she wants to speak. She is sure, as women often are, that things can be resolved by talking, whereas he is sure that talking will only make them worse.”
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