Barry's Books
The Darkest Corners
The concluding part of this darkly funny, horror series Darren Shan called... read more
The 13th Horseman
Drake is surprised to find three Horsemen of the Apocalypse playing snakes and... read more
Doc Mortis
The fourth thrilling book in this darkly funny horror series Darren Shan called... read more
Raggy Maggie
The second book in the award-winning Invisible Fiends series. Billy is the... read more
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Random Update Type Thing
It’s been over a week since I last posted anything on here, so I thought I’d better stick something up and quash rumours of my death before they have a chance to begin. There have been lots of little things happening over the past week, but none of them really worthy of a full blog post all of their own, which is why I haven’t bothered. Also, I had no internet connection for ages, so that didn’t exactly help matters. …
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Photos of me in action
Further to this post about my recent visit to Moniack Mhor to talk to the winners of this year’s Pushkin Prizes, here are a couple of photos of me doing a reading from INVISIBLE FIENDS, and signing the proof copies that HarperCollins let me dish out to all the winners. I didn’t realise I had such a tan until I saw these.
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The most irritating human alive?
Kyle made Fiona and me watch the Disney movie, Snow Buddies, today. Not only did he make us watch the movie, but he made us watch the DVD extras, too. DVD extras which included the music video below. It took me about twenty seconds to decide that the boy (he is male, right?) singing the track is quite possibly the most infuriatingly annoying person on this Earth. I guarantee that by the time you reach the 00:25 mark, you’ll want …
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The face in the attic
Yesterday, I realised I’m living inside a horror novel. It’s not a pleasant discovery to make, let me tell you. It happened when Fiona ordered me to start shoving boxes of junk up into the attic of our new house. The boxes of junk I put up came out of the attic of our old house. Before that, they sat in the attic of our other previous house for about five years. Why we even bother lugging the boxes around …
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Prizes and Awards
Don’t get excited by the title of this post – I haven’t won anything. I did, however, get to spend this afternoon with a group of winners – namely the winners of the 2009 Pushkin Prizes, a writing competition held for Scottish and Russian secondary school pupils. Following a long drive along narrow roads in the pouring rain, I arrived at the Moniack Mhor writer’s retreat just in time for lunch. Handy, that. As I scoffed down salami by the …
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