James William Barke (22 May 1905 - 20 March 1958) was a Scottish novelist.
In 1918, they moved to Glasgow, where he attended Hamilton Crescent public school.
[3] After 1945, Barke resigned from his job, and the family moved to Ayrshire, where he worked on The Immortal Memory, his series of five novels based on the life of Robert Burns.
The fourth, Major Operation, is a novel about Glasgow's Clydeside during the Great Depression.
His Immortal Memory quintet was about the life of the poet, Robert Burns.