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.
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What could possibly go wrong at the Rutherford Arts Festival? Plenty apparently. Three deaths, a hit and run, blackmail and a drugged hip flask are just the start. Things start to go wrong when Eddie Searchfield is found dead beneath a painting of a naked woman playing the cello.The Festival is organised by a Council electrician whose experience is limited to playing lead guitar in a back room of a pub group and covered for the national media by a novice journalist whose brief stage career ended abruptly when funding was cut. The worlds worst orchestra, a blank canvas and an installation comprised of Council rubbish are the tip of a very large iceberg which DCI Winwood calls 'one hundred and one of the world's greatest artistic disasters'. Whilst artistic chaos reigns around him he has a series of unexplained accidents to investigate that he is sure are connected. He is trying to understand why Government funding is being poured into Rutherford to support an hitherto lack of any obvious local talent. He finds that a background of unrequited love and the English way of life are the solution to all of his problems. This is not for the lovers of John Constable but more for those who find enlightenment in the Turner Prize.
Título : The Naked Cellist
EAN : 9781370726219
Editorial : John Barber
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