Barney Campbell joined the army after university, was commissioned into the Blues and Royals and served with them for five years. He was deployed on a tour of Afghanistan in the winter of 2009/10. He is from the Scottish Borders and is currently working in London. His first novel Rain was published in 2015 by Michael Joseph.
‘A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime’ Antonia Senior, The Sunday Times ‘In this vivid and engaging novel of war and friendship, Barney Campbell shows us once again that he is a natural writer. This is a novel of men at arms of the highest quality’. Alexander McCall Smith ‘A fantastic writer’ Kate Saunders, THE TIMES ‘The Fires of Gallipoli is a compelling, fast-paced, new historical fiction novel from Barney Campbell … His vivid storytelling really brought the trench warfare experience alive’ History with Jackson ‘A heart-wrenching, sweeping portrayal of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War’ The Sunday Post