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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Following her bestselling, critically
acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her
extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Myth for a
MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but
unexpectedly uplifting novel' Sunday Times Troy has fallen. The
Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors -
all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has
vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors
remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed,
kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy.
Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was
just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over. Cassandra, who
has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. They have
only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them.
Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of
Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. Hecuba,
howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could
make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could
wake the dead. And Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the
unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Once again caught up in the
disputes of violent men. Once again faced with the chance to shape
history. Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate,
The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of
one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the
critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls. 'Readers turn to
Barker's novels for their plain truths and clear-eyed sense of our
history and creation stories. But the sombre clarity of her writing
is offset by a luminous wisdom' Sunday Times 'The Women Of Troy's
immediate beauty is its accessibility and Barker's precise, elegant
writing' Metro 'Barker has always looked on the world with the
combination of a cold eye and a sympathetic understanding. Her
characterisation is sharp, her sympathy deep' ipaper
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Chilling, powerful,
audacious' The Times 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer
at the height of her powers' Evening Standard There was a woman at
the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until
now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the
witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her
city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her
husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she
survive to become the author of her own story? THE PERFECT GIFT FOR
FANS OF MADELINE MILLER'S CIRCE AND THE SONG OF ACHILLES!
*Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel
Award* Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of
our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.
"Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and
Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern
English fiction."-The Boston Globe The first book of the
Regeneration Trilogy-a Booker Prize nominee and one of
Entertainment Weekly's 100 All-Time Greatest Novels. In 1917
Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly
refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I.
His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially
classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War
Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set
about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the
trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is
a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle
for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the
victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. One of the most
amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regeneration has been hailed
by critics across the globe. More than one hundred years since
World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.
The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's
Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, Regeneration
is a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma
in the First World War. RECOMMENDED BY RICHARD OSMAN Craiglockhart
War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers
is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets
Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior,
who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper.
Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to
fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the
harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of
the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of
how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'One of
the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation'
Guardian 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph The Regeneration trilogy:
Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road
The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic
'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence
of the Girls 'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real
masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan
Coe 'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times 'Harrowing,
original, unforgettable' Independent 1918, the closing months of
the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned
for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior,
who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred
Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has
done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final
battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is
a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months
of the First World War. The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration The
Eye in the Door The Ghost Road
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author
of The Silence of the Girls The second novel in Pat Barker's
acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination
of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our
greatest writers on war and the human heart 'Heart-rending...
Toby's Room anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the
boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender' Independent 'Once again
Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving
fact and fiction into a gripping narrative' Sunday Telegraph When
Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a
lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die -
and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she
finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School
of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in
the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room
is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. The
Life Class trilogy: Life Class Toby's Room Noonday
The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration'
trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's
Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls WINNER OF THE
1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE 'Spellbinding and startlingly original'
Sunday Telegraph 'Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent'
Independent on Sunday 'A new vision of what the First World War did
to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians' A. S.
Byatt, Daily Telegraph London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for
Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private
encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals -
conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before
his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult
the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers -
Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his
superiors wish him to be. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending
study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live
through it. The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration The Eye in the
Door The Ghost Road
Twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to films for images of what his father might have been. Weaving in and out of Colin's real life, his imagined film explores issues of loyalty and betrayal and searches for the answer to the question 'What is a man?'
Double Vision from Pat Barker, a gripping novel about the effects
of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated
themselves to representing it In the aftermath of September 11,
2001, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York City, two
British journalists, a writer, Stephen Sharkey, and a photographer,
Ben Frobisher, part ways. Stephen, facing the almost simultaneous
discovery that his wife is having an affair, returns to England
shattered; he divorces and quits his job. Ben returns to his
vocation. He follows the war on terror to Afghanistan and is
killed. Stephen retreats to a cottage in the country to write a
book about violence, and what he sees as the reporting journalist's
or photographer's complicity in it; it is a book that will build in
large part on Ben's writing and photography. Ben's widow, Kate, a
sculptor, lives nearby, and as she and Stephen learn about each
other their world speedily shrinks, in pleasing but also disturbing
ways; Stephen's maid, with whom he has begun an affair, was once
lovers with Kate's new studio assistant, an odd local man named
Peter. As these connections become clear, Peter's strange behavior
around Stephen and Kate begins to take on threatening implications.
The sinister events that take place in this small town, so far from
the theaters of war Stephen has retreated from, will force him to
act instinctively, violently, and to face his most painful
revelations about himself.
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Life Class (Paperback)
Pat Barker
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From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author
of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's
acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and
war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart
'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times 'Barker writes as
brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she
conveys a wartime world turned upside down' Independent on Sunday
'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively 'Extraordinarily powerful'
Sunday Telegraph Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of
Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But
for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own
uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out
and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross
just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings
for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see
the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?
The Life Class trilogy: Life Class Toby's Room Noonday
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From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author
of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's
acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and
war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart
'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times 'Barker writes as
brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she
conveys a wartime world turned upside down' Independent on Sunday
'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively 'Extraordinarily powerful'
Sunday Telegraph Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of
Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But
for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own
uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out
and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross
just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings
for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see
the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?
The Life Class trilogy: Life Class Toby's Room Noonday
The devastating modern classic of contemporary war fiction from
Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls
Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker
Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving portrait
of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War
'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'One of
the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation'
Guardian 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph Craiglockhart War
Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is
treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets
Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior,
who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper.
Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to
fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the
harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of
the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of
how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The
Regeneration trilogy: Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost
Road
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Regeneration (Paperback)
Nicholas Wright; Originally written by Pat Barker
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Craiglockhart, Scotland, 1917. In a hospital for shell-shocked
officers, a brilliant doctor provides the cures required to send
his patients back to War. Under his tolerant reign, two young
officers form a passionate comradeship. Each is a poet, one
unknown, the other privileged and successful. Mentored by the older
man, the younger falls in love; his genius flowers and he becomes
the greater writer. But as his health is restored, he must face a
return to battle. ** "Nicholas Wright's deeply moving play stays
true to Barker's vision while highlighting its own chosen themes of
companionship, guilt and inequality" Michael Billington, Guardian
"I was raptly absorbed throughout by this superb stage version of
Pat Barker's award-winning First World War novel...gutting and
unmissable" Paul Taylor, The Independent
Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with
the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves.
They await a fair wind for the Aegean.
It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam
lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension,
camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that
held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new
suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.
Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis,
formerly Achilles's mistress, now belonging to his companion Alcimus,
quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can,
with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced
soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
The Booker Prize-winning modern classic of contemporary war fiction
from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the
Girls Recommended by Richard Osman 'One of the few real
masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan
Coe 'Original, delicate and unforgettable' Independent 'A new
vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and
female, soldiers and civilians. Constantly surprising and formally
superb' A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph 1917, Scotland. At
Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William
Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to
the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred
Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of
pencil and paper. . . Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The
Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of
the war. Widely acclaimed and admired, Pat Barker's Regeneration
trilogy paints with moving detail the far-reaching consequences of
a conflict which decimated a generation. The Regeneration trilogy:
Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road
A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming
the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest
victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the
women who walk the streets. But life and work go on. Brenda, with
three children, can't afford to give up while Audrey, now in her
forties, desperately goes on 'working the cars'. And then, when
another women is savagely murdered, Jean, her lover, takes
desperate measures...
An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker
Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence
of the Girls 'Rich, surprising, breathtaking' The Times 'A
tremendous piece of writing, sad and terrifying. It keeps you
reading, exhausted and blurry-eyed, until 2am' Independent on
Sunday 'Barker probes not only the mysteries of 'evil' but
society's horrified and incoherent response to it' Guardian
'Brilliantly crafted. Unflinching yet sensitive, this is a dark
story expertly told' Daily Mail When Tom Seymour, a child
psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from
drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped
to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten
Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of
prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he
thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into
Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil,
innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's
demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a
line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back?
Liza Garrett is the first child in town born in the twentieth century--whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoils of England itself. The tough, severe, but very real and recognizable world of women is put to the most strenuous tests, and Liza, at eighty-four, is proof that loyalty, fortitude and humor survive.
Union Street, Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult; all are struggling to survive. First published in 1982, it was made into the film Stanley & Iris by MGM in 1989, starring Robert DeNiro and Jane Fonda
Blow Your House Down, Barker's second novel, also portrays the lives of women in industrial England--but these women are prostitutes, living in a northern England city that is stalked by a vicious, Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who is singling out women with nowhere else to go.
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author
of The Silence of the Girls A powerfully thought-provoking portrait
of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction
'Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists'
Daily Telegraph 'The characters grab hold at the beginning and
never loosen their grip. Barker holds us by the sheer beauty of her
writing' Financial Times 'Barker has a quite extraordinary ability
to combine complexity and clarity and to make both seem parts of
the same whole' Sunday Times Returning to Afghanistan after his
photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen
Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly
at peace with itself. Questioning man's inhumanity to man both
abroad and at home, and whether love really can be the great
redeemer, Double Vision is a searing novel of conflict in modern
times.
Dauntless Liza Jarrett, born at the dawn of the twentieth century,
is now in her eighties, frail and facing eviction with her
cantankerous parrot Nelson, when she is visited by Stephen, a young
gay social worker. As she learns to trust him, she recalls her life
- her embittered, exhausted mother, her shell-shocked spiritualist
husband, her beloved son and chaotic daugter. Their friendship,
deepening with the unfolding of their stories, comes to sustain
Liza through her last battle and brings new courage to Stephen.
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