Susan Barker grew up in east London and lives in Manchester where she is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of SAYONARA BAR, THE ORIENTALIST AND THE GHOST and THE INCARNATIONS which was a New York Times Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews' Top Ten Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.
An extraordinary novel. Erudite, intriguing and compulsively readable, THE INCARNATIONS takes the reader on an intimate and mesmerizing journey through Chinese history. Susan Barker, a born story-teller, has written one of the most remarkable novels of recent years. -- JOHN BOYNE A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal and a vivid tapestry of the individual's struggle against the tyranny of history, this is the most extraordinary work of imagination you'll read all year -- ADAM JOHNSON, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 A brilliant, mind-expanding and wildly original novel -- CHRIS CLEAVE What a ferociously talented writer Susan Barker is. The Incarnations is a hallucinatory ride. Highly recommend -- ANNA HOPE, Author of WAKE Remarkable - ambitious in scope, painstakingly researched and most importantly, a gripping read. Publishing Perspectives