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Stephen Barker

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Stephen was born in England but nowadays lives with his family in New Zealand. Books and reading have been a lifelong passion. After school Stephen went to Sheffield University and studied medicine, where he kept his love of writing alive by contributing to student magazines. Medicine has led him into some unusual locations - such as time as a student intern in Borneo - and a couple of years after graduation the attraction of a working holiday in New Zealand became too much.
It’s now over twenty years since Stephen arrived in New Zealand. It was during coastal walks with his young family that the idea for his first published novel ‘The Secret of Spirits Bay’ and its sequel 'The Riddle of The Stones' first came to life.
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Average rating: 4.19 · 47 ratings · 12 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Secret of Spirits Bay 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Riddle of The Stones 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadwater Lane 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at Pembury Hall: A Jim Drake Mystery 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crags of Loch Crian 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thank you to all the kind people who entered my Giveaway for "The Crags of Loch Crian". I'll be getting the books out to the lucky winners in the next day or so. Hopefully those who weren't lucky will try this exciting story anyway! All the Best, Stephen.The Crags of Loch Crian Read more of this blog post »

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Persuasion: A Novel (Vintage Classics)

by Jane Austen

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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

by Nicholas Spencer

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Stephen Barker rated a book really liked it Denniston Rose, The (Kindle) by Jenny Pattrick	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A real case of ‘never judge a book by it’s cover’ ! Received this book as a mystery Christmas present ( Well done Mewingtons book shop ) For 20 years I thought this well-known NZ novel was a ‘Rose’ tinted-historical-romance type of book… Instead, it ...more
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I was perhaps expecting more of a historical or biographical approach to each of the featured quotations, so a touch of disappointment. Instead, the book is an easy to read, secular and humanist contemplation of how we all might get along together be ...more
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