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	village voice > books > Behindlings by Nicola Barker by Joy Press
		Barker has published half a dozen books of fiction in her native England, though hardly anyone has heard of her here.
		One of Barker's favorite characters, Wesley previously appeared in four short stories—trapping his brother in an abandoned refrigerator, liberating eels from a "pie and mash" café, feeding his hand to a ravenous owl, and stealing an antique pond.
		The book's very structure is a tease, because just as Barker begins to probe one peculiar personality, she moves her viewfinder on to the next, round and round until they're all tightly bound together, our view of them permanently blurred by the chaotic, accelerating plot.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0305/press.php (912 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| A writer's life: Nicola Barker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Barker describes herself as a "magpie", and her fiction has often been based on real events: Five Miles from Outer Hope (2000) incorporated the story of Jack Henry Abbott, a murderer befriended by Norman Mailer; Behindlings (2002) discussed future shock, a theory of globalisation current in the 1970s.
		Barker went down to the river most mornings with her dogs and she recorded the day-to-day changes she saw there – the musician Dizzee Rascal's show on the river, the belly dancers who trooped by the box, as well as Blaine's deterioration.
		Barker says she found Blaine's controlled starvation "incredibly powerful and thought-provoking", and was staggered that people reacted to him with such fury.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=N1CNB2YFUOQXVQFIQMGCM54AVCBQUJVC?xml=/arts/2004/09/05/bobarker.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/09/05/bomain.html (1255 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Behindlings by Nicola Barker
		In recent years, though Barker has won the somewhat impenetrable Impac award (its scope is huge, its panel partly comprised of the entire planet's librarians, its prize money - for the literary world - enormous), her readership has remained relatively limited; her seventh work of fiction, her publishers suggest, represents her commercial breakthrough.
		Barker's writing is fast-paced and frantic to the point of mania, but it can also be slapdash and pointlessly kooky.
		Her vision of a marginal Britain populated by drifters and desperados is fired by a comic energy that dances on the edge of self-combustion but occasionally fizzles out unexpectedly a moment before the big fireworks have got going.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,799697,00.html (755 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Reversed Forecast: AND Small Holdings: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nicola Barker is, for me, simply the most interesting novelist working in Britain today: here's a rather nifty re-packaging of two relatively short early novels.
		The central character, Ruby, is a likeable soul who experiences fewer difficulties with the business of living than most of Barker's creations: much of the plot concerns her unexpected acquisition of a racing greyhound.
		The plot is (as ever with Barker) complex; but after a variety of darkly tinged mayhem, the ending is upbeat.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007163991 (765 words)

	Misfits entranced by an elusive weirdo
		Halfway into the novel it still isn't clear how things fit together, what exactly the plot is and why we should trust her to pull it off, making it all the more astounding when, in the end, she does.
		The book's impact and scope are astounding, and in the end it seems impossible for it to have been written any other way; it is precisely the mapping of place and person in the first half of the novel that must be swum through for the story to take shape around us.
		Barker's audience remains relatively limited, and her publishers hope that this book will be her commercial breakthrough.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/05/RV150486.DTL (628 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Clear: A Transparent Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Had I not enjoyed Nicola Barker's "Reversed forecast" (which I can heartily recommend to anyone interested in reading a writer on top form), I would probably not have bothered finishing this one.
		Barker shares everything you need to know to share her point.
		Barker's point about not knowing what we are seeing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/000719241X (1011 words)

	Nicola Barker-Murphy — a mother who has never given birth - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Nicola (right) with her sister, Sheba (left) and her two nieces, Shadiomar (eldest) and Shanice.
		Every Mother's Day Nicola Barker-Murphy gets cards from all her nine children.
		The cards speak of their love and respect for her and the supportive force that she has been in their lives.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /magazines/AllWoman/html/20050501T170000-0500_79713_OBS_NICOLA_BARKER_MURPHY___A_MOTHER_WHO_HAS_NEVER_GIVEN_BIRTH.asp (664 words)

	Powells.com From the Author - Nicola Barker
		At the time he was writing London Fields and his heroine was called Nicola Six.
		He said he was willing to meet me because I was a Nicola and Nicolas were currently a source of fascination to him.
		The second reason was that when he wrote his novel Dead Babies, the very short, rather evil character called Keith was based on a real person whose actual name was Nick Baker.
	www.powells.com /fromtheauthor/barker.html (872 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Front Row - 17/09/02
		Mark Lawson talks to author Nicola Barker about her latest book Behindlings set in Canvey Island, Essex.
		Behindlings by Nicola Barker is available now and published by Flamingo.
		Moscow's mayor has announced plans to restore a statue of the first chairman of the KGB - Felix Dzerzhinsky, a bogeyman for Cold War Russians - which stood in Lubyanka Square in Moscow until 1991.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/arts/frontrow/frontrow_20020917.shtml (388 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Nicola Barker
		BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Nicola Barker
		Author, Nicola Barker tells Jenni Murray why the furore inspired her to write her latest novel, Clear and why she deliberately set out to enrage people with her book.
		Nicola Barker's Clear: A Transparent Novel is published by Fourth Estate, ISBN 000719241X
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2004_35_tue_01.shtml (126 words)

	Biblio: Behindlings : A Novel by Nicola Barker: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Biblio: Behindlings : A Novel by Nicola Barker: Details
		They skulk through the dreary streets of their tiny English town, gathering their own scabby intentions, irritating habits, and weird manners, burying all differences in the common pursuit of their true prize, their Wesley.
		In Behindlings, the inimitable and ungovernable Nicola Barker takes her most compelling character to date, gives him his head and her novel, and sees him run off with her readers.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/36636205.html (403 words)

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