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 li
Audacious, original, clever, poignant -- these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, a talented, award-winning author whose work brings to mind Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, a
A Londoner who makes a living spraying pesticides and his eccentric relatives and neighbors, including the son of a pedophile and the female head of a boar farm, follow their unglamorous, bitterly com
From Man Booker-shortlisted, IMPAC Award-winning author Nicola Barker, comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a 19th-century Hindu saintTo the world, h
From Man Booker-shortlisted, IMPAC Award-winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a 19th-century Hindu saintHe is only four
A comprehensive exploration of current same-sex marriage debates in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the UK and the US, providing a critical analysis of the institution of marriage asking whether and
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 repe
To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, he is the Brahmin fated to defy tradition. But to Hriday, his nephew and long-time caretak
"Extremely ambitious". (Financial Times). "An imaginative tour de force ...She really is a genius". (Guardian). "A delight". (New Statesman). FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR NICOLA BARKER. To t
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 St
An irreverent tale of illusion, celebrity, hunger, deception, and hypocrisy in today's pop culture world is centered around New York illusionist David Blaine's forty-four-day sojourn as a hunger artis
From Man Booker–shortlisted, IMPAC Award–winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a nineteenth-century Hindu saint.To the wo
From Man Booker–shortlisted, IMPAC Award–winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a nineteenth-century Hindu saint.To the wo
‘Open yourself up again to all that terrible light and savage bliss and deafening reverberation …’ In the Summer of 1971, a charismatic family seeks refuge in the quiet, English coastal backwater of P