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The Ghost Road: Popular Penguins by Pat Barker
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intenstiy with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist Wi ...Show more
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
A trilogy of novels set during World War I which mingle real and fictional characters. The Ghost Road won the 1995 Booker Prize.
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Category: Classic Fiction
Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration Trilogy - comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Doorand 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 Rivers struggles with th ...Show more
The Regeneration Trilogy Regeneration; the Eye in the Door; the Ghost Road : Regeneration; the Eye in the Door; the Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
A trilogy of novels set during World War I which mingle real and fictional characters. The Ghost Road won the 1995 Booker Prize.
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction | Series: historical fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls - A Novel by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles- famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his. No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks t ...Show more
The Voyage Home by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
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 her watchful maid, Ritsa. Ens ...Show more
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - an ...Show more
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls, an extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths from one of best writers of war fiction Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sa ...Show more
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls. Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - a ...Show more
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
Category: Fiction
It is 1917 and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. A letter she finds hidden among his belongings reveals that Toby knew ...Show more