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1	Darkmans by Nicola Barker From the award-winning author of 'Clear 'comes an epic novel of startling originality. If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's infamous court jester, whose favourite pastime was to burn people alive -- for a laugh? Or could it be Andrew ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Three Button Trick and Other Stories more books like this by Nicola Barker 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, and Maragaret Atwood. Now nineteen of her finest short stories have been complied into one brilliant, delightful readable volume. It takes young ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
3	Wide Open more books like this by Nicola Barker A novel about stripping off layers of prejudice and lies, about the possibility of redemption, and laying bare the truth. It is also about coming to terms with the past, and about the fantasies people construct in order to protect their fragile inner selves. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
4	Five miles from outer hope more books like this by Nicola Barker It's the summer of 1981. You're stuck in semi-derelict hotel on a tiny island off the coast of Devon. You're 16 years old and there's nothing to do but dream and wait for Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" to come out, until a ginger stranger arrives, stinking of antiseptic. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| first editions
5	Behindlings more books like this by Nicola Barker On the island of Canvey, an eccentric ecoterrorist named Wesley commands a band of followers known as the Behindlings. Also resident on the island is Katherine Turpin, who thinks Wesley is a crank. Their lives eventually intersect in a most unexpected way. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| first editions
6	Clear: A Transparent Novel more books like this by Nicola Barker 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? ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Heading inland more books like this by Nicola Barker Nicola Barker conjures up a fantastical world where an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a belly-button zip, a disgruntled job applicant steals his interviewer's garden pond and a new father feeds his hand to an owl. Her imagination is truly weird and wonderful, but what makes these stories work so well is that they are based on ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £52.56! \| first editions
8	Does the Sun Rise Over Dagenham?: And Other Stories: New Writing from London: (With Stories more books like this by Nicola Barker A collection of short stories, including the winning entries for a competition for new writers which was run by Fourth Estate and the London Arts Board. Stories by Louis de Bernieres, Nicola Barker and Emily Perkins are also included. The anthology takes London as its unifying theme. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.12! \| first editions
9	Love Your Enemies more books like this by Nicola Barker A collection of ten stories about people trying to find beauty in adverse circumstances. The first is Layla Carter, 16, from North London, whose nose is too big. The last is a lonely woman who meets a satyr in her kitchen and asks: "Can I feel your fur?". see all copies from £1.36! first editions
10	Reversed forecast more books like this by Nicola Barker Brings to life a week full of strange coincidences which affect the lives of Ruby and Sylvia. At the centre of the novel is the unforgettable Sylvia, an intriguing and haunting young girl to whom birds of all kinds are drawn irresistibly, despite her fatal allergy to them. see all copies from £5.70!
11	Small Holdings more books like this by Nicola Barker A comedy of errors featuring a mixture of quirky characters. A group of gardeners in a park in Palmers Green, North London, find themselves in crisis as an important meeting with the council looms. The author's collection of stories, "Love Your Enemies", won the David Higham Prize for Fiction. see all copies from £5.30!
12	Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the 15th Century more books like this by Nicola Barker This much-acclaimed work was first published in 1985 in an extremely limited edition of something under 200 copies. The first edition nonetheless sold out rapidly, and the reviewers were virtually universal in their recommendations that a new edition be published at a more accessible price, and thereby satisfy the additional demands on the ... see all copies from £72.35! new only from £72.35!
13 view cover	Three Button Trick Selected Stories by Nicola Barker The best short stories from perhaps England's finest young female comic writer. 'If her prose style wasn't so devastatingly funny and totally original she might be someone it's fun to hate. As it is, reading her short stories makes you wish you had a best friend just like her...No-one else in England writes like this.' Tatler This selection of ... see all copies from £10.32! new only from £10.73!
14 view cover	Clear by Nicola Barker Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. A raucous, exuberant novel about the outrageous circus surrounding David Blaine's 2003 starvation stunt at Tower Bridge, from Nicola Barker, a Granta Best of British Novelist. On 5th September 2003, New York illusionist David Blaine entered a small perspex box beside the River Thames and began starving ... see all copies from £30.66!
15	Gèante by Nicola; Gibert Barker, Catherine see all copies from £84.56! new only from £84.56!

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