John Baker (author)

John Baker (born 1942 Kingston upon Hull, England) is a British author. To date, he has published ten novels, many of them set in either Hull or York.

John Baker

Bibliography
  • Poet in the Gutter (1995)
  • Death Minus Zero (1996)
  • King of the Streets (1998)
  • Walking with Ghosts (1999)
  • The Chinese Girl (2000)
  • Shooting in the Dark (2001)
  • The Meanest Flood (2003)
  • White Skin Man (2004)
  • Winged with Death (2009)
  • Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday (2009)

Current project

Baker's latest novel is entitled Winged with Death, and deals with time and tango and revolution. Set simultaneously in Montevideo in the 1970s and the north of England in the present time, the plot revolves around abduction and denial. Winged with Death was published by Flambard Press in March 2009.

Blogging

Baker comments on the crafts of writing and reading, film, politics, theatre, music, and general cultural topics on johnbakersblog . He is also a member of the 9rules writing community, and has contributed to newcritics .

gollark: EACH PERSON gives each option a score of 0 to 5, I mean, and they're all summed up.
gollark: You give each option an arbitrary score from 0 to 5 or something and whichever gets the highest total wins.
gollark: That idea of resource allocation doesn't seem very good, though.
gollark: Although score voting is simple too and apparently might be better.
gollark: Yes, I know how approval voting works.


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