Hilarious, poignant and frequently surreal, Small Holdings is a is a comedy of errors from a neglected corner of everyday life by the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker. An attractive...

The breakthrough novel from one of the greatest comic writers in the language – one of the twenty selected by Granta as the Best of Young British Writers 2003. Some people follow the stars....

Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2000, Wide Open is the first of Nicola Barker’s Thames Gateway novels. Poking out of the River Thames estuary, the strange Isle of Sheppey is home to...

The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of ‘Darkmans’ and ‘The Burley Cross Postbox Theft’. 2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods' reputation...

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

From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked...

Quelques jours avant Noël, la boîte aux lettres du charmant petit village de Burley Cross est fracturée. Le sergent Roger Topping est chargé de déterminer si des lettres ont pu être subtilisées. Il se...

Les obsessions. L’histoire. La folie. Dans cette histoire de fantôme contemporaine, le passé médiéval prend visage humain et vient hanter les arrière-cours de la petite ville d’Ashford, semant le chaos...

Le 5 septembre 2003, l’illusionniste new-yorkais David Blaine entre dans une boîte en plexiglas transparente au-dessus de la Tamise et entame un jeûne. Quarante-quatre jours plus tard, il en ressort avec...

‘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...

From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted 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...

Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents. If history is a sick joke which...

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. Chance meetings between its...

Two novels from Nicola Barker, published together in a single volume. ‘Small Holdings’: it’s all go in a little oasis of nature, in this stirring tale of subterfuge among the shrubbery – plus ‘Reversed...

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. On 5th September...

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers. It's the summer of 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall (a positive...

The best short stories from perhaps England’s finest young female comic writer. This selection of Nicola Barker’s finest short stories contains work first published in ‘Heading Inland’ and ‘Love...