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...

I Am Sovereign von Barker, Nicola

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

Charles is trying to sell his characterless house in Llandudno. When Wang Shu and her daughter Ying Yue view and house and are mysteriously struck by an oyster shell, a series of innocuous events cause them to question their very...

Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barker's Thames Gateway novels. von Barker, Nicola

"The Yips: A Novel" von Nicola Barker ist ein skurriler und humorvoller Roman, der eine Reihe exzentrischer Charaktere in einer englischen Kleinstadt zusammenbringt. Im Mittelpunkt steht der professionelle Golfer Stuart Ransom, der mit...