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Nicola Barker


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Nicola Barker was born in 1966 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, and emigrated aged nine-with her sister and parents-to South Africa. She returned to England in 1981, with her mother. After completing a poor-quality university degree in philosophy and English (which she claims made her 'socially useless') she worked for many years in a bakery in Soho, a bookmaker's off Oxford Street, and then at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Sick Children in Hackney, where she spent much of her time sterilizing breast milk.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Thames Gateway
   1. Wide Open (1998)
   2. Behindlings (2002)
   3. Darkmans (2007)
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Digital Trilogy
   1. Burley Cross Postbox Theft (2010)
   2. The Yips (2012)
   3. In the Approaches (2014)
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Novels
   Reversed Forecast (1994)
   Small Holdings (1995)
   Five Miles from Outer Hope (2000)
   Clear: A Transparent Novel (2004)
   The Cauliflower (2016)
   H(A)ppy (2017)
   I Am Sovereign (2019)
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Collections
   Love Your Enemies (1993)
   Heading Inland (1996)
   The Three Button Trick (1999)
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Omnibus editions show
 
Nicola Barker recommends
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Children of Paradise (2022)
Camilla Grudova
"Camilla Grudova is Angela Carter's natural inheritor. Her style is effortlessly spare and wonderfully seductive. Read her! Love her! She is sincerely strange - a glittering literary gem in a landscape awash with paste and glue and artificial settings."

Anthologies containing stories by Nicola Barker
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Loss (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop
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Life (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel winner (2000) : Wide Open
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2004) : Clear: A Transparent Novel
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2007) : Darkmans
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Yips
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book winner (2017) : H(A)ppy


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