Barry Dean is a mid-century relic — part fossil, part survivor of the 1960s, and still prone to wandering off in thought.
WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE.
If you have arrived here deliberately, I’m impressed. If you arrived by accident, please feel free to stay for a moment anyway.
In truth, I felt much the same way about creating the site. It came about because a publisher suggested I should have some form of internet presence before agreeing to publish In Lieu. He may well have imagined something involving social media, but that has never been my natural habitat. A small and fairly quiet website seemed a safer option.
Anyway… take a good look around — you may even find something that makes the journey worthwhile.
‘Bass in space’ by Rowlie Walker.
MEET BARRY
From his early days as a long-haired muso with attitude, Barry went on to work as a technician, construction inspector, engineer and engineering consultant before dealing with barristers as an expert witness sparked an interest in writing fiction. It was less about the law and more about the characters he encountered along the way.
Inspired by the likes of Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett, writing stories that sit just to the left of reality appeals to Barry’s quirkier tendencies.
In his fiction he creates worlds of his own making, inspired by the music of life, global travel, a love of history and old ruins, and simple observation. In fact, his first novel The Garden of Emily Washburn (Hague Publishing, 2012) was inspired by watching the Cannes Film Festival and noticing the incongruous sight of a beautiful woman on the arm of a man “with a head like a Picasso painting”.