TonyInterruptor

Hardback Published on: 14/08/2025
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TonyInterruptor
An Honest Reprise
Barker's outlandish prose style is exactly what I love; erudite, digressional, referential (to itself and the wider cultural zeitgeist), witty, acidic, dee... READ MORE
Aaron Myles
TonyInterruptor
Fizzy Brilliance
The most fun I have had with a novel in a decade. So witty and effervescent, and yet also so extravagantly and profoundly sad, I couldn’t get enough. The j... READ MORE
John - Glasgow Braehead
TonyInterruptor
Wonderful & Wacky
This book is one wacky, irreverent, and hilarious ride. As akin to a comedian under lights, Nicola Baker does not shy away from a joke or two. It is writte... READ MORE
Dominic at Lancaster
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A comic masterpiece, TonyInterruptor sees one of the finest novelists working today trace the aftermath of a public interruption as it reverberates through the online world and its characters’ lives, posing fundamental questions about authenticity, the internet, love and truth. A comedy of manners for the digital age.

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Synopsis

'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?'

You couldn't really call the man soon to be christened TonyInterruptor a heckler, but he seems to feel an unquenchable urge to disrupt and interrupt live cultural events. Who is he? What does he want? Why does he indulge in behaviour that violates the social contract?

After just such a public interruption goes viral, a small group of characters determine to find out the answers to these question, and end up learning more than they might possibly like about music, culture, relationships, Art, integrity, each other and their own endlessly disrupted and disruptable selves.

As profound as it is exuberant, TonyInterruptor is a comic masterpiece that traces the aftermath of a single event as it reverberates through the online world and its characters' lives, upending everything in its wake and posing fundamental questions about authenticity, the internet, love and, yes, truth.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • ISBN: 9781803512549
  • Number of pages: 224
  • Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
  • Languages: English

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TonyInterruptor
An indulgent and comic exploration of the oddities of modern society! Loved it!
TonyInterruptor tells the story of a man who attends an improvised jazz gig, The man, as yet unnamed stands up in the middle of the gig and asks the questi... READ MORE
Rach - Yarra Book Club Aust
TonyInterruptor
Nicola Barker is a Genius
A wryly funny novel in which a man who interrupts a concert inadvertently becomes a social media sensation and the lives of those he touches begin to unrav... READ MORE
Katy Wheatley
TonyInterruptor
What is honesty?
Tony Interrupter by Nicola Barker When an audience member at an improvised jazz session ( who becomes the Tony of the title), stands up and questions th... READ MORE
Jonathan  Kaye
TonyInterruptor
Hang on, you'll get there ...
The style almost stream of consciousness with punctuation, eccentric, literary – plenty of academics and intellectuals demonstrating their prowess with the... READ MORE
Jayne Southern