Interview #12 | John Barlow (Author)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

I welcome John Barlow to the show in this interview episode.

After leaving school, John worked as a cabaret musician for several years, then read English Literature at Cambridge University, followed by postgraduate research into Language Acquisition at Hull University.

He then worked as a university teacher until 2004 before moving to Spain to write full-time.

John's first published work, the novella 'Eating Mammals', won the Paris Review's Discovery (Plimpton) Prize in 2002.

Apart from writing fiction, John has also worked as a ghostwriter, journalist and translator.

He has written for The Washington Post, Slate.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Penthouse, Departures Magazine and The Big Issue, and was a feature writer for the award-winning food magazine Spain Gourmetour.

John's latest book, 'To the Grave', released on May 26, 2022, is the second in his new crime series featuring English-Sicilian detective Joe Romano and is set in the north of England.

You can purchase a copy of 'To the Grave' here:

To the Grave – HarperCollins Publishers UK

For all things British Murders, please visit my website:

https://www.britishmurders.com/

Intro music:

David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'

https://linktr.ee/davidjohnbradymusic

My recording equipment:

Shure SM7B Vocal Microphone

Cloud Microphone Cloudlifter CL1

Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface

Rode PSA-1 Professional Studio Boom Arm

Recorded using:

Zencastr

Edited in:

Hindenberg PRO

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0:00.0	You are now listening to British Murders.
0:03.5	The Food Cry Podcast.
0:18.4	Hello everyone and welcome to British Murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British
0:23.9	murder cases with an occasional glimpse at horror movies. I'm your host, Stuart Blues,
0:28.7	and I have a special guest joining me for this episode. He is a writer who has written both
0:33.9	fiction and non-fiction books. He's also a ghostwriter, a journalist, a translator.
0:40.3	His first published work, Eating Mammals, won the Paris Review's Discovery Plimpton Prize in 2002,
0:46.6	and his latest book to the grave, the second in the DS Joe Romano crime thriller series,
0:51.7	was released on May 26th. Please welcome to the show, John Barlow.
0:57.6	Hello, good to be here. Very good to have you here, John. I'm pleased to welcome you on to British
1:02.3	murders. It's always lovely to have a crime thriller writer in the midst here.
1:06.5	Good. Good. Before we get started, I do have a little bit of an icebreaker question that as a writer,
1:12.6	I think it would be interesting to hear what your answer to this is. Okay. So we have a time machine.
1:17.9	Okay. It can be a DeLorean. It can be whatever you fancy. If you could go back in time and have one
1:24.2	book attributed to you, which book would you choose and why?
1:29.9	So an example would be going back in time and changing history so that you wrote The Shining,
1:35.2	for example, instead of Stephen King.
1:37.4	Yeah, I don't suppose I can have going back to Cervantes and writing Don Quixote,
1:41.8	can I? Is that going too far?
1:43.1	You can go back as far as you like, as long as you provide me with a reason.
1:46.6	Well, I think that book's never been bettered. You know, it was one of the first great
1:50.5	modern novels, and I don't think anything's been written that's better in its scope,
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