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The Cove Hotel

The Cove Hotel

Darren Barker

Independently Published
2019
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"I'm Emma Cummings and I'm a librarian." Emma likes books and films, good food and uninterrupted sleep. She has treated herself, booking into a luxurious small family run hotel by the sea, isolated and exclusive. She's tired and stressed and has promised herself a complete break from the demands of her job, her colleagues and her dysfunctional family. She's after peace and tranquillity, a chance to indulge in great books, great food and great weather. The hotel is all she hoped for, spotless, comfortable and with a spectacular sea view from her room. The food doesn't disappoint either, but almost from the start her fellow guests irritate her by refusing to leave her alone, despite her obvious preference for her own company. Irritation soon grows into anger, and after a misunderstanding with the noisy libidinous swingers in the next room, Emma really loses her cool. Although she finally deals with the lecherous pair and retreats back to her sanctuary, she finds that she has to become progressively more ingenious to achieve the peace and quiet that she craves. There's no romance on this holiday. Once again, Darren Barker serves up a blood-soaked nightmare in the most innocuous of settings. In turns horrific, hideous and hilarious, this is an ideal book for the holiday loving horror fan. Just don't let anyone interrupt your reading.
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Watching Twenty Four Seven

Watching Twenty Four Seven

Darren Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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The following tale, although unorthodox in its composition, follows the first hand observations of a peeping tom and murderer.Make sure you draw your curtains and lock your doors and windows.
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Death is coming

Death is coming

Darren Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Briggs looked like your normal everyday person, but he had dark hidden talents and the lust to use them. His cravings were for death and the hunt to a kill. His knowledge of his surroundings and what mistakes to avoid stands him ahead of anyone trying to discover his whereabouts.Using his time wisely the deaths roll in quickly. His serial killer status will show that it's in batches as time allows. When he kills once he kills again it will be fast and furious. An individual who is smarter than the average man, and a talented expert in the ways of murder.
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Deadly Sexual Trance

Deadly Sexual Trance

Darren Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Ian McKenzie is a quiet, unassuming man. He has the lifestyle, the friends, the money, more respectability than anyone could ever dream of. He had everything except contentment and happiness. Nothing thrilled him. After his discovery of an aging artefact with accompanying parchment his life takes a vicious turn, one that helps him acquire his own ultimate pleasure. Allowing him to keep his hands clean of murder, the artefact aids him in fuelling depraved acts of debauchment and death. He thrives on constructing more and more elaborate ways to increase both suffering for his victims and sexual pleasure for them all.He has one strict rule; absolutely no witnesses will ever survive.
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Mitchel

Mitchel

Darren Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Whatever you want to say about revenge, that it is all about hurting someone who hurt you, that it is vengeance, the desire or even the compulsion to pay back someone for a wrong against you, it is generally agreed that it is much more satisfying when exacted some time after the initial injury.Mitchel Gause has had an eventful life. He has seen a lot and suffered a lot over the years. His revenge began accidentally but his hate overcame his scruples when his lust for vengeance and for the kill exploded within him, yet to the rest of the world he was a very quiet unassuming man, kind and caring. He was known to be the sort of friend who would do anything for anyone...just don't cross him, he will never, ever forget it.
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Randomness

Randomness

Darren Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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In turns cheerful, romantic, melancholy or nostalgic, and underpinned with DB's trademark humour, this is a collection of poems that covers every occasion. There are friends and relatives, love and marriage, birthdays and dreams, but don't worry that he's gone all sentimental. There are still monsters under the bed. They may have been calmed by the sweetness here, but every now and then, there's still a jagged edge to provoke a growl from behind the curtain. This is a measured and thoughtful collection of poems that really does offer something for everyone.
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Obscure Dark Poetry

Obscure Dark Poetry

Darren Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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If you've read the first two volumes of Darren Barker's murky verse, then you know what to expect from this third journey into his sick, black mind. Covering the shadier aspects of the human condition, Darren exposes the violence and horror in the most innocent of pastimes. These poems make the everyday chilling and the innocuous unsettling. Don't read them alone, unless you are possessed of a strong stomach and an iron nerve. This book contains one hundred illustrations of the ways in which flesh can be damaged, and minds broken. Read it for the shrewd wordplay, for the imagination and for the delight in horror that Darren so effortlessly invokes. Just don't blame him if you find yourself wondering how sharp your kitchen knives are when you look at your best friend...
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What's Where on Earth? Dinosaur Atlas

What's Where on Earth? Dinosaur Atlas

Chris Barker; Darren Naish

DORLING KINDERSLEY LTD
2023
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Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed in this unique children's atlas exploring each continent.Stare down a T Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors' slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Trek across the Siberian tundra and discover a woolly mammoth. This innovative book uses impressive computer-generated imagery to make every dinosaur come to life. This fascinating dinosaur book for kids is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Children aged 9+ can explore the world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures through brand new maps and incredible artworks based on the latest scientific research, revealing fossils and stories on every map!This dinosaur atlas for children offers: - A breakdown of each continent by chapter, showing where dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals appeared at a given time.- A connection of each dinosaur to a period - Triassic, Jurassic, or Cretaceous.- Specially commissioned maps and 3D locator globes which link the prehistoric world to the present-day.- Vivid double-page features show dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in dynamic scenes.Dinosaur Atlas reveals the prehistoric world in a fresh, new atlas approach, and is an essential addition to the library of every young dinosaur expert.Using specially commissioned maps, What's Where on Earth? Dinosaur Atlas shows children what the world looked like millions of years ago. A modern 3D globe next to each map breaks down the arrangement of the continents over time and why we find fossils where we do. This book shows what palaeontologists have dug up in each continent and learn how they put together a picture of the past from a puzzle of ancient clues.
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Henry III

Henry III

Darren Baker

The History Press Ltd
2019
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‘Henry III is generally classed among the weakest and most incompetent of England’s medieval kings. Darren Baker tells a different story.’ - Michael Clanchy, author of England and Its Rulers, 1066–1307‘A personal and detailed narrative…bring[s] alive the glamour and personalities of thirteenth-century England.’- Huw Ridgeway, author of ‘Henry III’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography‘Enterprising, original and engaging.’ - David Carpenter, author of The Reign of King Henry III**Henry III (1207–72) reigned for 56 years, the longest-serving English monarch until the modern era.** Although knighted by William Marshal, he was no warrior king like his uncle Richard the Lionheart. He preferred to feed the poor to making war and would rather spend time with his wife and children than dally with mistresses and lord over roundtables. He sought to replace the dull projection of power imported by his Norman predecessors with a more humane and open-hearted monarchy. But his ambition led him to embark on bold foreign policy initiatives to win back the lands and prestige lost by his father King John. This set him at odds with his increasingly insular barons and clergy, now emboldened by the protections of Magna Carta. In one of the great political duels of history, Henry struggled to retain the power and authority of the crown against radical reformers like Simon de Montfort. He emerged victorious, but at a cost both to the kingdom and his reputation among historians. Yet his long rule also saw extraordinary advancements in politics and the arts, from the rise of the parliamentary state and universities to the great cathedrals of the land, including Henry’s own enduring achievement, Westminster Abbey.
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Richard of Cornwall

Richard of Cornwall

Darren Baker

AMBERLEY PUBLISHING
2022
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Richard of Cornwall was born in 1209 as the youngest son of King John. His life of adventure made him one of the wealthiest and most widely travelled men of his era. Praised for his diplomatic and organisational skills, he led the last successful crusade to the Holy Land and was elected king of Germany. At home he was indispensable to his brother Henry III, but he resented his dependence on him and often equivocated his support. When his brother-in-law Simon de Montfort raised rebellion against the regime, Richard took a neutral stance, and it ended up costing both him and the king. He emerged from that low point to exert what was his greatest and lasting influence on his German subjects. He took one of them as his third wife, a teenage beauty who was forty years younger than him. Ever a seeker of glory, luxury and pleasure, Richard turned Wallingford and Berkhamsted into the famous castles they became later on and sired numerous children with mistresses. He gladly squeezed the peasants to finance his ventures and lifestyle, but also came to their rescue when famine beset the realm. As with any complicated individual of that era, he was both admired and hated when he died in 1272. In this first biography of Richard of Cornwall in more than fifty years, Darren Baker explores Richard’s accomplishments, going much further into his life than any previous work, and shows why the only Englishman to carry the prestigious title of king of the Romans is always worth another look.
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The Two Eleanors of Henry III

The Two Eleanors of Henry III

Darren Baker

PEN SWORD BOOKS LTD
2024
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Eleanor of Provence was born in the province of her name in 1223. She has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He’s sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He’s a kind, sensitive sort whose only personal attachments to women so far have been to his three sisters. The youngest of them is called Eleanor too. She was only nine when, for political reasons, her first marriage took place, but she’s already a chaste twenty-year old widow when the new queen arrives in 1236. In a short time, this Eleanor will marry the rising star of her brother’s court, a French parvenu named Simon de Montfort, thus wedding the fates of these four people together in an England about to undergo some of the most profound changes in its history. It’s a tale that covers three decades at its heart, with loyalty to family and principles at stake, in a land where foreigners are subject to intense scrutiny and jealousy. The relationship between these two sisters-in-law, close but ultimately doomed, will reflect not just the turbulence and tragedy of their times, but also the brilliance and splendour.
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Simon de Montfort and the Rise of the English Nation

Simon de Montfort and the Rise of the English Nation

Darren Baker

Amberley Publishing
2018
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Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montfort’s combination of charisma and fearlessness made him one of the greatest men of his age. This biography follows his life from his birth in France and arrival in England to his defeat and death at Evesham in 1265. Along the way he succeeded in establishing a constitutional monarchy and, in the act he is most famous for, broadening the scope of representation in Parliament. King Henry III’s long reign (1216–1272) saw many changes taking place in England and on the Continent, including a re-awakening in national identity not seen since before the Norman Conquest two centuries earlier. Simon de Montfort’s recognition and cultivation of this growing awareness was instrumental in his rebellion and takeover of the government. Not for another four hundred years, until the advent of Oliver Cromwell, would England see a revolution led by a figure of comparable stature.
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Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century

Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century

Darren Baker

Pen Sword Military
2020
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One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close to Paris, and grew to prominence under the crusading fervour of that time, taking them from leadership in the Albigensian wars to lordships around the Mediterranean. They marry into the English aristocracy, join the crusade to the Holy Land, then another crusade in the south of France against the Cathars. The controversial stewardship of Simon de Montfort (V) in that conflict is explored in depth. It is his son Simon de Montfort (VI) who is perhaps best known. His rebellion against Henry III of England ultimately establishes the first parliamentary state in Europe. The decline of the family begins with Simon's defeat and death at Evesham in 1265\. Initially they revive their fortunes under the new king of Sicily, but they scandalise Europe with a vengeful political murder. By this time it is the twilight of the crusades era and the remaining de Montforts either perish or are expelled. Eleanor de Montfort, the last Princess of Wales, dies in childbirth and her daughter is raised as a nun.
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The Two Eleanors of Henry III

The Two Eleanors of Henry III

Darren Baker

Pen Sword History
2019
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Eleanor of Provence was born in the province of her name in 1223. She has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He's sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He's a kind, sensitive sort whose only personal attachments to women so far have been to his three sisters. The youngest of them is called Eleanor too. She was only nine when, for political reasons, her first marriage took place, but she's already a chaste twenty-year old widow when the new queen arrives in 1236. In a short time, this Eleanor will marry the rising star of her brother's court, a French parvenu named Simon de Montfort, thus wedding the fates of these four people together in an England about to undergo some of the most profound changes in its history. It's a tale that covers three decades at its heart, with loyalty to family and principles at stake, in a land where foreigners are subject to intense scrutiny and jealousy. The relationship between these two sisters-in-law, close but ultimately doomed, will reflect not just the turbulence and tragedy of their times, but also the brilliance and splendour.
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A Giant Unseen Hand

A Giant Unseen Hand

Darren Baker

Handshake Press
2022
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A Giant Unseen Hand is what forces the captain of a private jet full of billionaires to ditch her plane in the Atalntic. It goes to the bottom with the billionaires, but the crew survives and makes it to a desert isle. There they have to deal with drug addiction, pregnancy, childbirth, and the failure to live up to one other's expectations. When they are finally rescued, they learn that the world is in the grips of a global pandemic, global warming, and global meltdown in general. The madness sends them back to the island, not to regain their sanity, rather to settle a score.The other four plays in this volume follow a similar format. In Chopping Heads, a man who makes a living by firing people becomes stranded on a desert isle for five years after his plane crashes on one such business trip. After he's rescued and returns to civilization, he's ready to really chop a few heads. No Ship in Sight presents an early twentieth-century passenger liner that might well be the Titanic. It leaves port with three men on a stag voyage, two women eager for the same adventure, their snobbish aunt, and a ship's officer out to cash in on the lot of them. Locked Down is the fate of an office worker trapped in an elevator but nobody realizes he's missing until a chance meeting of those near and dear to him. And Four Out of Three finds an investigative bureau stumped by an unseen sexual predator who may be one or all of them.
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