Barker: 1020 books

Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Matthew Cheney ("How Far to Englishman's Bay")...

Everyone is fascinated by glamorous, cut-throat industries like modelling, but most of us could never even come close to guessing what really goes on behind the scenes. Now it's time to find out. Bessie Bardot and Geoff Barker, former managing team behind the highly innovative modelling agency...

Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he...

Season 1: Episode 2 - A 1-hour Bitesize read. The second episode following our hero, Regret, as he and his squad of infantry head for Charleroi to destroy the enemy guns before they can rain their massive shells on the British Expeditionary Force HQ. Behind enemy lines with only a squad,...

A Bitesize 1-hour read. Soldiers - Season 1: Episode 3 Another blistering episode with Regret leading his now depleted squad into the town of Charleroi in search of the German guns. What they find makes their mission even more vital. And even more impossible. But Regret will not...

A searching and at times harrowing re-appraisal of the life of Evel Knievel, the seventies American icon and the greatest daredevil motorcyclist that ever lived. The story of the last few years of his life and his death in 2007. Stuart Barker's definitive biography captures the super-star status that...

Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalized such names as Cyclops, Menelaus, and Achilles, and inspired such films as the Brad Pitt blockbuster Troy. In this vivid introduction, Elton Barker and Joel Christensen...

On attendait depuis près de vingt ans le retour des deux personnages les plus célèbres de Clive Barker : Pinhead et Harry D’Amour. Un rendez-vous annoncé dans un ouvrage devenu mythique que des millions d’admirateurs n’osaient plus espérer. Ce livre, le voici. Un final...

This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated...

We live with the idea of sin every day – from the greatest transgressions to the tiniest misdemeanours. But surely the concept was invented for an age where divine retribution and eternal punishment dominated the collective consciousness?  In this lively collection of new writing, Nicola...

Does life go on beyond the grave? A growing body of evidence suggests that it does. Written through the hand of Elsa Barker, an established author in her own right, Letters from the Light presents a kind of "astral travelogue" that describes--often eloquently, sometimes humorously--life in the "invisible" world.

How important is the priesthood to you? Written especially for deacons, priest, and teachers, Even the Prophet Started Out As a Deacon explains the importance of that first priesthood ordination. In a fun and engaging way, Shane Barker uses examples form his own experience &mdash stories of fishing,...

Being a librarian in a busy town library can be a tiresome job. For Amy, that was about to change.

Every thinking person wants to lead a life of meaning and purpose. For thousands of years, holy books have told us that such a life is available only through obedience and submission to some higher power. Today, the faithful keep popular devotionals and tracts within easy reach on bedside tables and...