{{short description|British journalist and author|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{about||the wheelchair rugby player|Andy Barrow}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''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.<ref>An Almanack Joseph Whitaker 1993 - Snippet view - More editions Andrew Barrow's The Tap Dancer won the Mc- Kirterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize.</ref>
==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)
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