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# Ros Barber

Writer

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://rosbarber.com/?page_id=615)
- [Peter Farey ( 25.04.1938 - 02.02.2020)](https://rosbarber.com/peter-farey-obit/) - My friend Peter Farey died early last year. This obituary was first published in the members' newsletter of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. I am reposting it here as an accessible tribute to a man whose loss I will always deeply feel. Peter Farey, the leading Marlovian researcher, has died aged 81. A cautious and

## Pages

- [Award-winning Writer, Speaker, Researcher](https://rosbarber.com/) - Ros Barber: award-winning author, recovering academic & metaphysical explorer. Books, essays & other curious transformations.
- [Work With Me](https://rosbarber.com/work-with-me/) - I've come to think emotions are the most important thing about being human, and that conviction runs through everything I do. Literature that truly moves people isn't decoration; it's how we make sense of our lives, develop compassion, and find words for things we couldn't previously say. I've spent nearly three decades writing work that
- [Writer](https://rosbarber.com/writer-2/) - 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
- [Mentoring](https://rosbarber.com/writer-2/mentoring/) - Writing a book is a long game. Most writers don't need cheerleading — they need someone who will read carefully, understand what they are aiming to achieve, and tell them the truth. That's what I offer. I work with writers on novels and narrative non-fiction, reading your manuscript in 10,000-word chunks and meeting with you
- [How Things Are On Thursday (2004)](https://rosbarber.com/books/how-things-are-on-thursday-2004/) - What Happens To Women It’s what happens to women, no matter who you are. Divine inside? They’ll only see the face. It’s coming, despite your warmth, your grit, your heart – the sudden shift from beauty, to disgrace. A light snapped off, and you’re gone. You’re in the dark. No-one can see you now. You
- [Material (2008)](https://rosbarber.com/books-old/material-2008/) - Material The seed of this collection was the death of my mother in 2002. Thus the first poem, the title poem, was almost bound to be about my mother even if it seems to be about handkerchiefs. Since this particular poem is now on the 'A' Level syllabus in the UK and some people (both
- [Speaker](https://rosbarber.com/speaking/) - Writer. Survivor. Putting unspeakable things into galvanising words. I wrote a novel in the voice of Christopher Marlowe. I also spent eight years in an abusive marriage I couldn't explain to anyone, because he never hit me, and he was very good at being charming to other people. These two facts are not unrelated. Understanding
- [Academic](https://rosbarber.com/research/) - 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
- [The Marlowe Papers (2012)](https://rosbarber.com/books/marlowe-papers/) - 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
- [Devotion (2015)](https://rosbarber.com/books/devotion/) - Read the first chapter of "Devotion" Ten years after the death of Richard Dawkins there are moves to have religious fundamentalism classified as a form of mental illness, and Finlay Logan, a celebrated criminal psychologist, must determine the sanity of April Jones, a disturbed young woman soon to be tried for a religiously-motivated atrocity. But
- [Contact](https://rosbarber.com/contact-2/)
- [Books](https://rosbarber.com/books/) - Ros Barber books: The Marlowe Papers (winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize and Best First Novel Award), Devotion (Shortlisted for the Encore Award)

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