An extract from Barrie Sherwood’s new novel, The Macanese Pro-Wrestler’s Cookbook, published by Penguin on 17 November 2021. Lunch service: total drag. It had been weeks since we’d had a full house, and this was more than partly my fault. I have to admit that while I was dreaming of a future as a celebrity […]
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The Macanese Pro-Wrestler’s Cookbook by Barrie Sherwood
The Macanese Pro-Wrestler’s Cookbook is the new novel by UEA alumnus Barrie Sherwood and has just been published by Penguin Random House SEA. Born in Hong Kong of Canadian and French nationality, Barrie now lives in Singapore where he is an assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. He graduated with a […]
Speed of Lightness
Speed of Lightness is the revised edition of Barrie Sherwood’s second novel Escape to Amsterdam and has just been published by Penguin Random House SEA. This anime of extracts from the novel has been illustrated by Saku and features music by Huey Daze and Hazy Year. It is narrated by Joe O’Connell of Beyond Ghibli, who also provides […]
Speed of Lightness by Barrie Sherwood
Speed of Lightness is a revised edition of the second novel by UEA alumnus Barrie Sherwood and has just been published by Penguin Random House SEA. It was originally published in 2007 by Granta as Escape from Amsterdam. Born in Hong Kong of Canadian and French nationality, Barrie now lives in Singapore where he is […]
The Angel Tiger and Other Stories by Barrie Sherwood
The Angel Tiger and Other Stories is the new collection by UEA alumnus Barrie Sherwood and is published by Epigram Books this month. Born in Hong Kong of Canadian and French nationality, Barrie now lives in Singapore where he is an assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. He graduated with a […]
The Cone Snail
An extract from ‘The Cone Snail’ by Barrie Sherwood, which is published in his new collection, The Angel Tiger and Other Stories (Epigram Books), in October 2019. THE job, and all that it led to, came to Andra through an uncle of sorts, a Singaporean Sikh who lived with his aunt and owned a fleet of […]
