Crime

The Paperback Show I’ve been working on this podcast for years now. Since I first saw the lurid cover of…

By Gary Phillips April 5th, 2020 Hunkered down at home is mostly what me and other fiction writers do most…

by Duncan CampbellThe Guardian UKJune 3rd, 2014 In 1972 John Barker was one of four Angry Brigade members sentenced to…

By David PittBooklistAugust 20th, 2014 In the 1970s, Barker was a member of the British anarchist group the Angry Brigade;…

Publishers WeeklySeptember 2014 British author Barker (Bending the Bars, a memoir of his time in prison) ventures into fiction with…

By Woody HautLos Angeles Review of BooksDecember 19th, 2014 A Dirty Baker’s Dozen: My Favorite Crime Novels of 2014 British…

By Tom JenningsMute Magazine7 May 2015 In John Barker’s Futures, an expertly crafted crime novel exploring cocaine trafficking in Thatcherite…