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Book Description
From the award-winning author of 'Clear 'comes an epic novel of startling originality. If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's infamous court jester, whose favourite pastime was to burn peopleContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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'I won't make you feel better'
Nicola Barker is worried about me. Not me specifically - though she has made sure I'm comfortable on her sofa with my cup of tea and the unpredictable attentions of her two friendly but rivalrous Boston terriers - but me as a representative of her re ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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A wild ride
Strikingly original, quite crazy. I had a hard time entering the book - the first chapter felt endless, and it took me some time to get used to the peculiar writing tricks. However, once I got into it I literally devoured the rest.
I'm not sure I understood much of it, eh.
But I sure enjoy ... (continue)Ficie said on Mar 4, 2009 | Add your feedback
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more than a story, this is a series of reliefs like those you find in medieval churches, or maybe a number of sketches in succession, as in a morality play - with more than a hint of morals seeping through. uk as it is today - but with a bergmanian flavour (remember "the seventh seal"?). very clever ... (continue)
Elsastella said on Feb 21, 2009 | Add your feedback
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| 9780007270170 | Paperback | $24.13 | $22.14 | The Book Depository |
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A roar, a titter and a tee-hee-hee
Darkmans by Nicola Barker 838pp, Fourth Estate, £17.99 A jester haunts this book. Not the story (though he does that, too), but the book itself, possessing the characters at inconvenient moments, forcing broken language out of their mouths and scatte ... (read full critics)