Books by Barry
Stories beget Stories
I’ve written and published a number of titles in both fiction and non-fiction. Please click on the buttons below to purchase ebooks or paperbacks.
The Place
Where Words
Come Out
It’s 1912. Following the sinking of the Titanic and all the bodies arriving in Halifax, Tara Hale boards a train and heads west. Determined to meet the artist Emily Carr in Vancouver, she ends up limping into William Snow’s world in Alberta.
It is the place where lies are told. The place where truths are hidden. The place where words come out.
But can the words be trusted?
Story, Schmory
A Fun Guide to the Lost Art of Live Storytelling
Just for the Tell of It!
The lost art of live storytelling is easier than you think and much more rewarding than you can ever imagine. Story, Schmory will help you do it in a fun, irreverent, effective way that will have your colleagues, students, and children asking you to repeat the experience again and again.
No memorising. No practicing. No props. Just you, a story, and an audience.
Learn how to tell a story, why this lost art connects us today, and what it all means for you and your audience.
Discover the lost art of live storytelling and continue a long and valuable tradition of stirring things up.
If for no other reason than just for the tell of it.
Unbalanced
The Rise and Fall of Anglo
Murder. Marriage. Mystery. It’s not an easy juggling act.
In May of 1903, Thomas “Anglo” Horton was the cover story for London’s influential and immensely popular Magic Magazine.
One year later, he was dead.
Then in 1907, Hamley’s of London publishes The Art of Modern Juggling. It’s the world’s first book on the subject and Anglo is cited as the author.
Not only was “Australia’s Greatest Juggler” rotting away in an unmarked grave by the time the book came out, it was widely known that Horton, 24 at the time of his death, couldn’t “spell a word of four letters”.
How does an illiterate juggler, three years gone, author a ground-breaking book about a timeless tradition?
According to a local bookseller and Horton’s one-time promoter, there’s only one possible explanation.
Only he doesn’t believe
in ghosts.
