John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.
This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.
John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.
He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords
John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.
The world is dark and mankind is on the verge of extinction. Small groups of humans live in isolation and scavenge artifacts left by the ancient people. The largest settlement is called Hustown and has nearly three hundred people. The town and the people are controlled by the priests who claim to talk to the gods. They don't just depend on faith to maintain their position. They provide proof in ways that keep the people convinced and under control. The priests live in relatively luxury while the general populace struggles to survive and not everyone is happy about that.
Jase is a skeptic and a hunter who meets a man near death while on a hunting expedition. He nurses the man back to health and learns of a fantastic place the injured man has discovered that may shed some light on the true existence of the gods. After returning to Hustown, Jase and the man he saved, along with two of Jase's friends, decide to make a journey of discovery. Their goal is to gather information from isolated groups to share with everyone in order to make the world a better place to live but first they must reach the magical place described by the stranger in order to solve the mystery of the gods once and for all.
Their journey is long and arduous but what they find at their destination will change them and their world forever.
Título : The Gods in the Mirror
EAN : 9781311290359
Editorial : John Barber
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