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Ian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ian Barker
Goodreads Author
Born
in Chesterfield, The United Kingdom
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2008
It’s All Write turned 7 today!
It’s All Write turned 7 today!
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Fallen Star
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2009
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5 editions
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One Hot Summer
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2012
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The Instant Guide to Windows 8
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2012
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Late Show
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2012
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3 editions
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The Instant Guide to Creating an App
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2103
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The Instant Guide to Android
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2012
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GameChangers: Apple's Breakthrough Moments
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2013
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Ian’s Recent Updates
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| Eddie Jordan was one of the more colourful characters in Formula 1 motor racing in recent years. By his own account something of a chancer, the book charts his rise from Irish bank clerk through wheeling and dealing to finance racing in the lower for ...more | |
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| Philadelphia, 1777, the American War of Independence is in full swing. Private Sam Gilpin is plucked from the ranks to become the servant of one of general Howe’s staff officers, leading him into a world of contrasts, lavish social engagements, bitte ...more | |
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This is two related short stories – or a novella with two long chapters if you prefer – set in the Slow Horses universe. You’ll find some familiar characters from the novels here though the main players here are new. There’s a certain leCarré-esque qu ...more |
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A local councillor in a small town dies suddenly, giving rise to the ‘casual vacancy’ of the title and triggering a host of petty rivalries. I remember seeing the TV adaptation of this some years ago, so when the book came up for 99p on Kindle it seem ...more |
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| Oxford. An old man in pyjamas is found dead on the lawn of a hotel several miles from his home. A security guard has been murdered in a botched museum robbery. The first case is given to the two DIs Wilkins – wrong side of the tracks Ryan and Cambrid ...more | |
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MI5 is on the trail of a terror plot, but Liz Carlyle is also investigating the existence of a possible mole within the service. The story pulls together the Islamist threat with the legacy of the Northern Ireland troubles. You’ll have worked out who ...more |
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Richard Porter, aka Sniff Petrol, was a script writer for Top Gear and has written for various motoring publications. This is a collection of his columns for Evo magazine. It's a book to dip in and out of with most sections being a three or four minut ...more |
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The Eye of the Needle was Follett’s first best seller, published in the 1970s. The story focuses on a German spy in WW2 Britain and those attempting to catch him. It follows the now familiar Follett pattern of seemingly disparate character threads dra ...more |
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| Kim lives in a beige apartment, household robots prepare her meals – and decide what she should eat – her clothes are all shades of uninspiring pastels and beige. This is a highly regulated world where even language is tightly controlled and ungender ...more | |
“Graham glared him into silence, his eyes cold enough to make a penguin wish it had stocked up on thermal underwear.”
― Fallen Star
― Fallen Star
“I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.”
― One Hot Summer
― One Hot Summer
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”
― Getting on
― Getting on
European Writers' Group
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This is a discussion group for GoodReads authors in or from Europe, but members from elsewhere are welcome too, especially those who write stories tak ...more
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The Underrated Authors Project 2013
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Now, I am not sure if this has been done before, so I apologise if this already exists (I'd be surprised if it hasn't). I wanted to make a group dedic ...more
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Entangled in Romance
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— last activity Oct 14, 2023 01:18PM
Welcome to Entangled in Romance book group! We talk about all things Entangled, so join the fun! Our authors participate in this group, as well, so as ...more
The London Magazine
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— last activity Aug 24, 2015 01:26PM
Do you read the magazine? Have you ever submitted to the magazine? Ever been published in the magazine? Want to learn what it's all about? Well, here ...more
