Pat Barker

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker is a powerful and haunting retelling of the legendary Trojan War through the eyes of the often overlooked women who were caught in its devastating wake. This evocative novel shifts the spotlight from the revered warriors to the women who endured unspeakable hardships amidst the chaos of battle, offering a fresh and...

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker, the riveting sequel to the critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls, delves deep into the aftermath of the Trojan War. As the dust settles on the ruins of Troy, the Greek victors, weighed down with spoils and desperate to return home, find themselves stranded. A favourable wind is all they need...

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls. After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks—among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra and...

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls. After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks—among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and...

Regeneration by Pat Barker is not only a vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War. It is a multi-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship between doctors and patients, between the classes, between men and women, and between men and men. A fine anthem for doomed youth. - Time Out

Regeneration is the Booker Prize-nominated first book in Pat Barker's award-winning World War One trilogy. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where 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...

Regeneration is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims - whatever they may be - and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are...

A sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction and a devastating portrait of the effects of WWI. Pat Barker's award-winning The Regeneration Trilogy—comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road—is the heart-rending story of the last two years of the First World War seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior. As...

The breathtaking novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy. In the Spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville—himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter—makes...

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...