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Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2013, joint winner of the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2013. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize For Fiction 2013. Observer Books of the Year 2012. Joint winner of the Hoffman Prize 2011. ‘The most complete Marlowe I’ve ever encountered.’ – Will Self ‘This terrifically accomplished and enjoyable novel… restores one’s faith […]
Ros Barber is an award-winning writer of both historical and speculative fiction. Her debut novel, The Marlowe Papers, described by the New York Times as “a remarkable book”, was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize, jointly awarded the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, and long-listed for the Women’s Prize for fiction.
Ros Barber is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award for her debut The Marlowe Papers, which was also longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Her second novel, Devotion, described as “an unexpectedly piercing exploration of loss” by Kirkus Reviews, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Prize. With a […]
Praise for The Marlowe Papers (Winner: Desmond Elliott Prize 2013, Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2013, Longlisted: Women’s Fiction Prize 2013. Featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb.) “The Marlowe Papers thunders along like an episode of some Elizabethan 24.” Jonathan Barnes in Literary Review “For me, The Marlowe Papers is the best read, […]
Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, Dr Barber is the author and presenter of Coursera’s Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare, editor and co-author of 30-Second Shakespeare (2015), also published as Know-It-All Shakespeare. She is the author of the online compendium Shakespeare: the Evidence. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on Early Modern literary […]