Valerie Arkell-Smith (18951960 as Valerie Barker) was a crossdresser who pretended to have fought in the RAF as Colonel Sir Victor Barker DSO.
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A Thomas-Pynchon-meets-Paul-Bowles novel - set in Tangier and Soho, blending fact and fiction. Fast-moving contemporary narrative of film makers sucked into century-old mysteries of Morocco. Ageing actress, young director and a cast from the past that includes Samuel Pepys and Cleopatra's daughter.
Victor Barker
Paperback
224
Kangaroo Press
0731802586
9780731802586
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Masked gunmen overthrow the Government of Fiji. A story of international greed, betrayal and sex. Fiji already had a goldmine but now, with its newly discovered mahogany plantations, it has money growing on trees. The author combines the backgrounds of several recent rebellions in Fiji as the basis...
Victor Barker
Paperback
456
BookSurge Publishing
1439217599
9781439217597
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Working in a home with intellectually handicapped people, a carer is drawn into the timeless realities of one of the residents. With her we enter the worlds of The Fool - as court jester , jungle shaman, Sufi alchemist, music hall comedian and contemporary psychiatrist.
Victor Barker
Paperback
172
Snug House
1921019263
9781921019265
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A fast-moving post-modern literary fiction with a touch of magic realism. Swashbuckling eighteenth century French captain on voyage for Napoleon draws a modern seaman into a haunted world of secret societies, a chest of secret papers, a stolen skull and the beautiful woman who stowed away.
Victor Barker
Paperback
288
BookSurge Australia
1921019255
9781921019258
6
Victor Barker
Paperback
206
Japan Pubns
0870408712
9780870408717
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Victor Barker
0731803485
Victor Barker
0870408712
Victor Barker
1921019344
Victor Barker
1921019662