Damian Barr
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You Will Be Safe Here
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Maggie & Me
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Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
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The Two Roberts
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Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future
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Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction
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Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves
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Get It Together : Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis
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"I'll be honest, I expected to like this book. I really admire Damian Barr, especially for the way he promotes other authors and public libraries through his work. And I have read and enjoyed his previous novel. But The Two Roberts is even better than"
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"so unbelievably perfect. taut with an intense emotion and thrill of love and longing. such a genuine romantic relationship between two distinctive characters and artists. so moving! loveeeed. "
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"I confess I’d never heard of the Scottish artists Robert ‘Bobby’ MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun before reading this book and I suspect I’m not alone. How exciting though for an author to come across two people whose lives and achievements have been al"
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“We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us are on superyachts. Some of us have just the one oar.”
― Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future
― Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future
“Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away.”
― Maggie & Me
― Maggie & Me
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“We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us are on superyachts. Some of us have just the one oar.”
― Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future
― Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future
“You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.”
― Maggie & Me
― Maggie & Me
“Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love.”
― You Will Be Safe Here
― You Will Be Safe Here
“The second time I try to kill a man I'm fourteen. Killing a man seems a very grown-up thing to do - like writing in Biro.”
― Maggie & Me
― Maggie & Me
“Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.”
― Maggie & Me
― Maggie & Me

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