Nicola Barker

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Thames Gateway

Behindlings (Jan-2003)
Darkmans (Dec-2007)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Wide Open

    • / General Fiction
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    As winner of the highly prestigious IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, Wide Open beat out books by such masters as Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Michael Cunningham. It is truly extraordinary work of fiction, taking readers into a small Engl...

  • The 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 Story seriesNicola Barker's collection of her ninete...

  • Behindlings

    Thames Gateway

    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 goes, and lie in wait for him around every corner. They skulk th...

  • 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 pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And t...

  • Darkmans

    Thames Gateway

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all... If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it...

  • By Force of Will, Alone

  • Park Stories

  • Heading Inland

  • Love Your Enemies



  • Five Miles from Outer Hope

    Summer, 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three in her crocheted stockings, is marooned in a semi-derelict hotel on a tiny island off the coast of Devon, England. There’s nothing to do but paint novelty mugs, dream of literary murders, an...

  • Reversed Forecast

    "Reversed Forecast" is a vivid snapshot of pre-gentrification London and a tale of finding love in less-than-scenic places. Chance meetings between its cast of inimitably odd individuals -- Ruby, the betting-shop cashier; violently disturbed (and dis...

  • Small Holdings

    Sharp, poignant, and frequently surreal, "Small Holdings" is a comedy of errors from everyday life by prize-winning author Nicola Barker “I tried to work out which was worse; feeling different but fitting in or being different but feeling in you...

  • The Yips

    Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his way through ...

  • The Yips

    Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his way throu...

  • In the Approaches

    For New condition books; You will be the first to open the book cover. For Used condition books; It shows signs of wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. There are no problems in page content and in the paper....

  • The Cauliflower

    To the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna--godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, she of low caste and large inheritance, he is the brahmin fated to defy tradition. But to Hriday, his nephew and longtime caretaker, he is j...

  • The Cauliflower?

  • 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 YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR From the internationally a...

  • I Am Sovereign

    Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear maker and wearer of ironic t-shirts, is trying - and failing - to sell his small, characterless house in Llandudno. His estate agent Avigail, whose name is definitely not Abigail, is trying - in vain - to...



  • Burley Cross Postbox Theft

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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 m...

Award-Winning Books by Nicola Barker

Wide Open
2000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nicola Barker has published 20 books.

Nicola Barker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I Am Sovereign, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Nicola Barker, Wide Open, was published in January 1998.

Yes. Nicola Barker has 1 series.
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