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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.

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__________________________________________'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard ... I think it's a masterpiece.' ALI SMITH 'I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.' KEVIN BARRYCharles, 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 ...

Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She is the author of twelve novels ¿ including Wide Open, Darkmans, The Yips and In the Approaches ¿ and two short story collections. She has been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has won the IMPAC, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Hawthornden Prizes, and was named one of Granta¿s 20 Best Young British Writers in 2003. Her lates...

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillmentThe Three Button Trick and Other Stories is a collection of nineteen of Nicola Barker’s most brilliant stories and exemplifies her ability to create daring, witty, and dynamic characters, all their idiosyncrasies intact. Barker’s stories often use wordplay and humor to stretch the boundaries of metaphor and real...

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.

Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She is the author of twelve novels ¿ including Wide Open, Darkmans, The Yips and In the Approaches ¿ and two short story collections. She has been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has won the IMPAC, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Hawthornden Prizes, and was named one of Granta¿s 20 Best Young British Writers in 2003. Her lates...

Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.

From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.

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The Man Booker Prize–nominated novel by one of the most original authors of our time 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 night. Desperate for attention, he strikes up free-flowing conversations with anyone who will listen. But as...

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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 the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The fights? The lust? The filth? The bullshit? The hypocrisy? Nicola Barker fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous pe...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, "Darkmans" is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on the unsuspecting. The third of Barkers narratives of the Thames Gateway, this work is an epic novel of startling originality.

Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her childhood in South Africa. She is the author of twelve novels ¿ including Wide Open, Darkmans, The Yips and In the Approaches ¿ and two short story collections. She has been twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has won the IMPAC, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Hawthornden Prizes, and was named one of Granta¿s 20 Best Young British Writers in 2003. Her lates...

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The UK¿s Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same-Sex) Act 2014 are important legal, social and historical landmarks. Same-sex relationship recognition has become a key site of political contestation rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform process that commenced with the decriminalisation of homosexuality. T...

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA) and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2014 (MSSCA) are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform process that commenced with the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Yet, at the same time, for others they represent a problematic and...