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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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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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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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| Top Gear and The Grand Tour delivered a particular blend of TV mayhem that was much more than a car show. Whilst the on-screen talent are familiar to millions around the world Andy Wilman – producer of the shows – is less well known. Here he provides ...more | |
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| Beth Baxter runs a struggling second-hand bookshop, her fiancé, Karl, is a planning officer with the local council, her life is ordinary if not dull. But then she discovers Karl is in debt to a very dodgy character. Just as her life seems to have hit ...more | |
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Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
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History is generally written by the winners, so it’s not surprising that the Battle of Britain and the Blitz are most often portrayed from the British angle. This book sets out to correct that by setting out the German view of events. Based on a mix o ...more |
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| " Below is the opening to my very first (unpublished and unpublishable) novel. It was lovingly hand-written in a fancy binder in about 1978 when I was fourteen. No computers back then and nobody even had typewriters at home. I got a manual typew..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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At the wedding of Joyce's daughter a still grieving Elizabeth meets a man who says that someone is trying to kill him. Her interest is piqued and sets the team of pensioner sleuths on the scent of another case. It would be easy to dismiss this series ...more |
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| Broadcaster Mark Radcliffe, his wife Bella and dog Arlo spend three months in Rome. That’s the book in a nutshell. It’s a gentle travelogue narrated in turn by Arlo and Mark (Spoiler: it’s Mark writing the dog’s parts too) giving you a dog’s eye view ...more | |
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The Fish and Chip Shop Detectives (The Fish and Chip Shop Detective Agency, #1):
"This was a pleasant murder mystery story, but it didn’t make me excited or really hooked.
It’s a nice read if you want something easy and that you can pause. While being interesting, it didn’t have the gripping effect. It’s mostly just a cozy murder " Read more of this review » |
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On a list of unlikely sleuths a middle-aged woman working in a fish and chip shop has to rate pretty high. Maggie teams up with Ryan, a young man whose girlfriend has gone off to Portugal without him, to investigate the death of a bride-to-be. The plo ...more |
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"I almost tossed this book before the required fifty pages because it was irritating me, but, boy, am I glad I didn’t. This is an extraordinary novel, fast paced - well, mostly - downright exciting at times and fairly terrifying. So what did I initial"
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“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
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