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Border Crossing by Pat Barker
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's new novel portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has recons ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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 Time ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Life Class is Pat Barker's powerful and unforgettable story of art and war. Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' 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 ...Show more
Noonday by Pat Barker
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, their manes and tails on fire...' London, the Blitz, autumn 19 ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - 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 Sie ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - 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 Siegfri ...Show more
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
29.99 AUD
Category: 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 Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 Voyage Home by Pat Barker
34.99 AUD
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
22.99 AUD
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good
Pat Barker returns to the First World War in "Toby's Room", a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. 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 de ...Show more