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Andrew Barrow (born 11 May 1945, in Lancaster, England) is a British journalist and author. His The Tap Dancer won the 1993 Hawthornden Prize and the McKitterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40.[1]

List of works

  • Gossip: A History of High Society from 1920 to 1970 (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
  • The Flesh is Weak: An Intimate History of the Church of England (Hamish Hamilton, 1980)
  • International Gossip: A History of High Society from 1970 to 1980 (Hamish Hamilton, 1983)
  • The Gossip Family Handbook (Hamish Hamilton, 1984)
  • The Great Book of Small Talk (Fourth Estate, 1987)
  • The Tap Dancer (Duckworth, 1992)
  • The Man in the Moon (Macmillan, 1996)
  • Quentin and Philip: A Double Portrait (Macmillan, 2002)
  • Animal Magic. A Brother’s Story (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
  • The Great Book of Mobile Talk (Square Peg, 2013)

References

  1. ^ An Almanack Joseph Whitaker 1993 – Snippet view – More editions Andrew Barrow’s The Tap Dancer won the Mc- Kirterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize.