Author: markbarry
“…not for the faint hearted…”Terry Valentine could have made something of himself had it not been for easy women, hard drugs, football violence and the horses. Now, he’s washed-up. A loser. A failed wannabe living an invisible life. Going nowhere fast, his obsessions alternate between suicide and the next fix of Doom, the latest designer drug – a highly addictive synthetic hybrid of crack, E … hybrid of crack, E and opium. By a stroke of fortune, Terry takes a job driving Chloe, a beautiful young escort who caters for Nottingham’s successful businesswomen. The two form a bond. Then Chloe…
Four Writers are invited to stay at a lovely, sixteenth century hotel in the fictional town of Wheatley Fields as they have been nominated for a prestigious award ceremony. One thriller writer, a top romance specialist, an American YA tyro on the way to the top…and a degenerate, drunken, nihilistic Indie who sells thirty copies a year, mostly to family and haters.See through the cynical, … the cynical, pretentious, ever-open eyes of the hotel’s Night Porter, the lives of the four meet and intertwine and as the ceremony approaches, one of the four takes a hit…Based on the famous Saracen’s…
Buddy Chinn, the son of a lauded beat poet from the seventies, is happy to follow the dishonourable family tradition of booze, bets, books and broads.Then, at Hollywood Park one winter Saturday afternoon, two tough guys persuade him to join them on a trip to Damascus, a sprawling mansion off Mulholland Drive, a palace surrounded by a forest of imported trees and lush vegetation.There, he meets … vegetation.There, he meets Mortimer Saxon, a, reclusive obsessive manuscript collector with an edge. A sharp suited zealot searching for Buddy’s dad’s fabled Lost Manuscript; a one off, a unique piece worth thousands and…
John Dexter has problems. Real problems. We’re talking episodes in psychiatric hospitals, and then some. Woe betide any woman he falls in love with. But he’s no mad stalker. He knows himself, understand his own motives and behavioural patterns all too well. The problem is, he can’t stop himself. Then he meets Carla. Twenty-two years his junior, with family problems of her own.CARLA is a novel of … own.CARLA is a novel of obsession, love and loss, exploring very real mental health problems. It centres around an average flat and an average pub in an average English town, but its…
“I swore that I would never go home, but in the end, I had no choice. I had to confront what happened. And them too. It was going be icky. And totally scary.”Carol Prentice left Wheatley Fields to attend university in Manchester and not once did she return in four years. Her beloved father visited her whenever he could, but then he passed away and it was up to her to sort his affairs. She could … to sort his affairs. She could have done this from a distance, but a woman can run to the far corners of the…