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Nicola Barker Books in Order

Nicola Barker has written 19 books, published between 1993 and 2025. The first book is Love Your Enemies (1993) and the newest is TonyInterruptor (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1993–2025
Pages on record
5,101 in 16 of 19 books
Reading time
85–128 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,101 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

See all 19 books in order Printable Nicola Barker checklist

Nineteen catalogued books carry Nicola Barker's name, published between 1993 and 2025. Barker, born in 1966, is an English novelist and short story writer whose work is indexed under England, London, manners and customs, and eccentrics and eccentricities. The run opens with Love Your Enemies (1993) and continues through Darkmans (2007) to TonyInterruptor (2025). Two Barker series sit in the catalogue: Thames Gateway and Digital Trilogy.

How many Nicola Barker books are there?

Nicola Barker has 19 books, released between 1993 and 2025. They include 2 series and 11 titles listed outside any series.

Nicola Barker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Nicola Barker books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Heading Inland by Nicola Barker (1996)
  2. Cover of Wide Open by Nicola Barker, book 1 of the Thames Gateway series (1998)
  3. Cover of The Three Button Trick by Nicola Barker (1999)
  4. Cover of Five Miles From Outer Hope by Nicola Barker (2000)
  5. Cover of Behindlings by Nicola Barker, book 2 of the Thames Gateway series (2002)
  6. Cover of Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker (2004)
  7. Cover of Darkmans by Nicola Barker, book 3 of the Thames Gateway series (2007)
  8. Cover of By Force of Will, Alone: Greenwich Park by Nicola Barker, book 3 of the Park Stories series (2009)
  9. Cover of Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker, book 1 of the Digital Trilogy (2010)
  10. Cover of The Yips by Nicola Barker, book 2 of the Digital Trilogy (2012)
  11. Cover of The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker (2016)
  1. 1
    Love Your Enemies1993 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993184
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  2. 2
    Reversed Forecast1994 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994193
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  3. 3
    Small Holdings1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  4. 4
    Heading Inland1996 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996160
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  5. 5
    Wide OpenThames Gateway #11998 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998304
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  6. 6
    The Three Button Trick1999 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999224
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  7. 7
    Five Miles From Outer Hope2000 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000208
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  8. 8
    BehindlingsThames Gateway #22002 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002544
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  9. 9
    Clear: A Transparent Novel2004 · 346 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004346
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  10. 10
    DarkmansThames Gateway #32007 · 838 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007838
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  11. 11
    Park StoriesPark Stories #22009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  12. 12
    By Force of Will, Alone: Greenwich ParkPark Stories #32009 · 12 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200912
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  13. 13
    Burley Cross Postbox TheftDigital Trilogy #12010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  14. 14
    The YipsDigital Trilogy #22012 · 548 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012548
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  15. 15
    In the ApproachesDigital Trilogy #32014 · 497 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014497
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  16. 16
    The Cauliflower2016 · 291 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016291
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  17. 17
    H(A)ppy2017 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017304
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  18. 18
    I Am Sovereign2019 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019224
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  19. 19
    TonyInterruptor2025 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2025224
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Nicola Barker books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Thames Gateway in order

3 books
  1. 1. Wide Open
  2. 2. Behindlings
  3. 3. Darkmans

Digital Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. Burley Cross Postbox Theft
  2. 2. The Yips
  3. 3. In the Approaches

Park Stories in order

2 books
  1. 2. Park Stories
  2. 3. By Force of Will, Alone: Greenwich Park

Standalone books

11 books

11 Nicola Barker titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Nicola Barker books in order?

You only need to read Nicola Barker books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Nicola Barker

Start with Love Your Enemies (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Nicola Barker book?

TonyInterruptor (2025) is the newest Nicola Barker book released so far.

Is there a new Nicola Barker book coming?

No next Nicola Barker book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Nicola Barker has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 3 nominations for Nicola Barker. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Nicola Barker at a glance

Still publishing
Nicola Barker published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Nicola Barker books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
5,101 pages across the 16 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 258 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nicola Barker books, 6 of 19, were published in the 2010s.

What the Nicola Barker books are about

15 of the 19 Nicola Barker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: england is tagged on 3 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.