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Two books coming soon!
From Revel Barker Publishing
Available now for pre-order
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Out this month (Published May 30, 2009)
The Upper Pleasure Garden
By Gordon M Williams
 Out of the workaday rounds of a provincial yellow journalist, Gordon Williams has scraped together an occupational ambiance as definitive as dirty fingernails... a yeasty mixture of character and social climate...
New York Times Book Review
The flavour of this sort of journalistic life is caught as well as in any novel I can remember.
Sunday Times
Of the factual trickery of foot in the door reporting I'm more than willing to be convinced by Gordon Williams. His hero's belief that the world is as down to earth and dirty as the newspaper business also seems consistent with the events and personalities in the novel.
New Statesman
A most entertaining and intelligent novel.
London Evening Standard
Everything throbs with life, vibrates with individuality... for sheer elan vital it's the next best thing to surf-bathing.
Irish Times
Available on pre-order from amazon.co.uk
Out next month (Published June 8, 2009)
Crying All The Way To The Bank
(Liberace v. the Daily Mirror and Cassandra)
By Revel Barker
Foreword by Vera Baird QC
 The Trial of the Century
It’s the Liberace Show…!
Time magazine
Bizarre and hilarious… Nothing shorter than a paperback could achieve a balanced report of the brilliance of the advocacy and summing-up. – Hugh Cudlipp
CASSANDRA:
A literary assassin who dips his pen in vitriol, hired by this sensational newspaper to murder reputations and hand out sensational articles on which its circulation is built. … as vicious and violent a writer as has ever been in the profession of journalism in this city of London. – Gilbert Beyfus QC
CASSANDRA…On Liberace:
They all say that this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love has had the biggest reception and impact on London since Charlie Chaplin arrived at the same station, Waterloo, on September 12, 1921…
He reeks with emetic language that can only make grown men long for a quiet corner, an aspidistra, a handkerchief and the old heave-ho.
Without doubt he is the biggest sentimental vomit of all time. Slobbering over his mother, winking at his brother, and counting the cash at every second, this superb piece of calculating candy-floss has an answer for every situation.
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