Andrew Barrow

Andrew Barrow (born 11 May 1945, in Lancaster, England) is a British journalist and author. His The Tap Dancer won the 1993 Hawthornden Prize and the McKitterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40.

List of works Gossip: A History of High Society from 1920 to 1970 (Hamish Hamilton, 1978) The Flesh is Weak: An Intimate History of the Church of England (Hamish Hamilton, 1980) International Gossip: A History of High Society from 1970 to 1980 (Hamish Hamilton, 1983) The Gossip Family Handbook (Hamish Hamilton, 1984) The Great Book of Small Talk (Fourth Estate, 1987) The Tap Dancer (Duckworth, 1992) The Man in the Moon (Macmillan, 1996) Quentin and Philip: A Double Portrait (Macmillan, 2002) Animal Magic. A Brother's Story (Jonathan Cape, 2011) The Great Book of Mobile Talk (Square Peg, 2013)