Raffaella Barker

Writer. Author of nine novels including bestselling 'From A Distance' (Bloomsbury, 2014) and creative writing tutor at @uniofeastanglia

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

Need some spring #reading? All of my books are available via my website https://t.co/pWorbKxHrd #literature #writing

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

Early bird discount for my weekly zoom workshop!

[Heidi Swain 🌞🧡🌞 @Heidi_Swain]

I picked up two #books from my local #library with the intention that they'd see me through next week. No chance! I'm already three quarters of the way through #summertime by @raffaellabarker I just can't put it down!

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#amreading #bloomsbury #sundaymorning

[Lucy Scholes @LucyScholes]

I'm reading Elspeth Barker's 'O, Caledonia' (1991) for the first time & I'm gripped. It's like a nightmarish, nasty 'I Capture the Castle', a Scottish-set 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'. Seems like it should be better known, but I assume there are fans out there...

[Lettice Franklin @letticefranklin]

The next #WNEssential is #OCaledonia by #ElspethBarker and to say you are in for a treat is a gross understatement.

With a new introduction from #MaggieOFarrell, and praise from #AliSmith, #DavidNicholls, @esmacneal and #PenelopeLively

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

As always, you can find the books from my lists at my @bookshop_org_UK store ⬇️
https://t.co/Hg9khEnU14

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It's that time of the month! September's theme for #Top10recsbyraff is 10 books to glimpse the past.

These writers show us how things change but, very often, these books remind us how much we are the same, and that the past can exist through us and on into the future.

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

10. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - Yearning, snow based, politically impossible love story where everything goes wrong again and again and again, yet it’s imperative to go on wishing for Lara and Zhivago’s happiness.

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9. Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn -
Wry writing from the extraordinary MG with cameos of a perpetually grumpy Ernest Hemingway in this coruscating voyage of worst travel experiences. Difficult to read but impossible to put down.

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

@charliegilmour So great to see how many people have loved it, and amazing that now so many more will get the chance to read it too. I would love to put you in touch if you would like to know more! Drop me a DM if you are keen and I can arrange :)

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

New month, new books. Here are my top 10 books for August to take you into the wild🌿

Find my top 10 lists for each month at my @bookshop_org_UK page ⤵️
https://t.co/nqoU7TAumI

[Raffaella Barker @raffaellabarker]

@charliegilmour Pleasure! Loved your book and was mesmerised by dirty detail of life with a corvid. My mother another enthusiast and had a jackdaw, see O Caledonia when you have a spare moment xxx

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10. In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw
Vita Sackville-West’s diary plants paintings in your mind and flowers in your garden.

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9. Haunts of the Black Masseur by Charles Sprawson
Dive in and plumb the depths of the history of swimming.