Barry Pilton

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Barry Pilton (born 1946 in Croydon, Surrey) is a travel writer, radio and television comedy scriptwriter and novelist. He was educated in Dulwich College and King's College London. In 1967-8 he taught English in Paris and from 1969 worked as a journalist on the Sunday Post, becoming a freelance writer in 1976.^[1] He has worked on Not the Nine O'Clock News^[2], Shelley^[3], Week Ending and Spitting Image^[4]. Between 1984 and 1999 he lived in Llandefailogfach near Brecon in Mid Wales and his first novel The Valley is concerned with the affect of outsiders on the rural status quo. He now lives in Bristol.^[5]

Contents 1 Travel Writing 2 Novels 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Travel Writing

• Miles of London (1981) (with Sybil Harper) ISBN 0354046527
• One Man and His Bog (1986) (on walking the Pennine Way) ISBN 0552127965
• One Man and His Log (1988) ISBN 0552132330
• An Innocent Abroad (1997) ISBN 055299717X

[edit] Novels

• The Valley (2005) ISBN 0747571686
• Town with No Twin (2007) ISBN 0747589569

[edit] External links

• Barry Pilton at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Barry Pilton (Feb 2005)
• Author webpage

[edit] References

1. ^ One Man and His Bog author notes
2. ^ Bloomsbury.com - Bloomsbury Author Information
3. ^ Cult TV - Reviews - SHELLEY - SERIES ONE
4. ^ The Valley author notes
5. ^ An everyday story of country folk - icWales