Hugo Barnacle

Hugo Barnacle is a novelist and literary critic. He has reviewed for The Sunday Times and The Independent. His highly acclaimed novels Promise and Day One were originally published by Quartet and are reissued by The Paris Press.

Praise for Day One:

'A surging city portrait that artfully balances the minutiae of pre-PC office life against superb blood-and-guts action sequences... In the end, however, it is Barnacle's uncanny ability to pin down the precise moment when one nation invisibly gave birth to another -- that hazy Day One of contemporary Britain -- that makes this novel such a fine piece of work.'

Stephen Amidon, The Sunday Times

'To take a day or so, a tiny slice of time, and squeeze characters against a background of momentous events is very seductive. It is carried off with such panache, wit and humour in Hugo Barnacle's second novel that he begins to redefine what we think of as a "thriller"... The joy of the novel is that these colliding worlds are observed in a precise but completely original style.'

Paul Pickering, The Independent

'Barnacle offers up perfect and unstated insights into the lives of his characters... His style is thrilling in its allegros and comic in its adagios.'

Robert Potts, The Guardian