Barry Silsby is an author and educator from Brighton, UK. His published works include more than thirty education titles written or edited by him with Hodder & Stoughton, Headline and Creative Educational Press. He now concentrates on writing fiction with his Detective Wheatley mysteries and his Arthurian trilogy ‘Arthur’s Women’. The creative non-fiction novella ‘A Young Murder?’ follows the murder of Barry’s great-grandmother in Brighton in 1893, when the real-life Detective Wheatley investigated the case. Finding out nothing about him but his name, Detective Wheatley was written as an innocent, a believer in justice and the absolutes of right and wrong who consequently struggles with the realities of life and the broader implications of class and gender in Victorian society. New fictional adventures for Detective Wheatley followed and the first in the series ‘Just Wheatley?‘ is available in paperback and as an ebook. ‘The Brewery Murders‘ is completed and out for publishing and both “The Coven of Carlton Hill’ and ‘Ferry’ in the pipeline.

Barry is a graduate of the advanced writing course with New Writing South

barry.silsby@barrysilsby.org.

Detective Wheatley was a popular character in this creative non-fiction novella, based on a true family story.

Wheatley’s latest adventures are continued in’ Just WHEATLEY?‘

All of Wheatley’s adventures are indexed above.

AN ongoing project is ‘Arthur’s Women‘ which views the Arthurian legend through the eyes of the women in High King Artor’s life.

From time to time bits of my writing, often rough drafts, will appear in the ‘Wanna Read?’ section.

..and if you’re a sucker for punishment;

I have drafted poetry for many years beginning with my iconic doggerel “My name is Barry Silsby, Always was and always will be.” penned at age nine years and two months (or thereabouts).

Some is a little better than that. Find out in the ‘Poems4u’ section above.