A L Barker
(Audrey Lilian Barker)
(1918 - 2002)A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions and startling events of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted Auberon Waugh to declare that she "writes like an angel and I love her."
A.L. Barker had a long, distinguished career as a novelist and writer of short stories. Her first collection, INNOCENTS, won the first Somerset Maughan prize in 1947 and her novel, JOHN BROWN'S BODY, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1960. Other novels include THE GOOSEBOY (winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award 1988), THE MIDDLING, THE WOMAN WHO TALKED TO HERSELF and her final novel, THE HAUNT. She preferred the form of the short story to the novel, and her collections of short stories include LOST UPON THE ROUNDABOUTS, ANY EXCUSE FOR A PARTY and the semi autobiographical LIFE STORIES. She worked for the BBC until her retirement to her long-time home in Carshalton, Surrey. A.L. Barker died in February 2002.
A.L. Barker had a long, distinguished career as a novelist and writer of short stories. Her first collection, INNOCENTS, won the first Somerset Maughan prize in 1947 and her novel, JOHN BROWN'S BODY, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1960. Other novels include THE GOOSEBOY (winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award 1988), THE MIDDLING, THE WOMAN WHO TALKED TO HERSELF and her final novel, THE HAUNT. She preferred the form of the short story to the novel, and her collections of short stories include LOST UPON THE ROUNDABOUTS, ANY EXCUSE FOR A PARTY and the semi autobiographical LIFE STORIES. She worked for the BBC until her retirement to her long-time home in Carshalton, Surrey. A.L. Barker died in February 2002.
Novels
Apology for a Hero (1950)
A Case Examined (1965)
The Middling (1967)
John Brown's Body (1969)
A Source of Embarrassment (1974)
Heavy Feather (1978)
Relative Successes (1984)
The Gooseboy (1987)
The Woman Who Talked to Herself (1989)
Zeph (1992)
The Haunt (1999)
No Word of Love (2011)
A Case Examined (1965)
The Middling (1967)
John Brown's Body (1969)
A Source of Embarrassment (1974)
Heavy Feather (1978)
Relative Successes (1984)
The Gooseboy (1987)
The Woman Who Talked to Herself (1989)
Zeph (1992)
The Haunt (1999)
No Word of Love (2011)
Collections
Innocents (1947)
Novelette, with Other Stories (1951)
The Joy-Ride and After (1963)
Lost Upon the Roundabouts (1964)
Femina Real (1971)
Life Stories (1981)
No World of Love (1985)
Any Excuse for a Party (1991)
Element of Doubt (1992)
Seduction (1994)
Submerged (2002)
Novelette, with Other Stories (1951)
The Joy-Ride and After (1963)
Lost Upon the Roundabouts (1964)
Femina Real (1971)
Life Stories (1981)
No World of Love (1985)
Any Excuse for a Party (1991)
Element of Doubt (1992)
Seduction (1994)
Submerged (2002)
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