Pat Barker Libri

Including all three novels in one volume, "Regeneration", "The Eye in the Door" and "The Ghost Road". The trilogy explores with gritty realism the whole dirty, glorious and horrifying business of war.

An alternate cover edition can be found here.As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked soldier determined to rejoin the final English offensive--are profounded affected by the events of the era. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.

Barker's brilliant antiwar novel Regeneration was widely hailed as a masterpiece. Now she returns to the World War I era with another exceptional novel. As the war draws to its close, English patriotism strikes at pacifists, homosexuals and suffragists, threatening to destroy the very fabric of society.

The great city of Troy is under siege as Greek heroes Achilles and Agamemnon wage bloody war over a stolen woman. In the Greek camp, another woman is watching and waiting- Briseis. She was a queen of this land until Achilles sacked her city and murdered her husband and sons. Now she is Achilles' concubine- a prize of battle. Briseis is just one among thousands of women backstage in this war - the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead - all of them voiceless in history. But, though no one knows it yet, they are just ten weeks away from the death of Achilles and the Fall of Troy, an end to this long and bitter conflict. Briseis will see it all - and she will bear witness.

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 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 � Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The first book in the Regeneration trilogy

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROYContinuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra -- daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo, after he has kissed her, granting her the gift of true prophecy, he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)Psychologically complex and dangerously driven, Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events, drawing in King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon's triumphant return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined, and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.

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.

Paul Tarrant, Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville first met in 1914 at the Slade School of Art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have even turned to seances in an attempt to contact lost loved ones. As the bombs fall and Elinor and the others struggle to survive, old temptations and obsessions return, and all of them are forced to make choices about what they really want ...

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 - and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed. The coalition that held them together begins to fray, as old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, erstwhile queen Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, rebellious Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and she begins to see the path to revenge...

Toby has always protected his sister, Elinor, their bond closer than they can acknowledge. Then comes war, and in 1917 on a French battlefield Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed'. Elinor, an artist now involved in helping surgeons reconstruct the faces of injured soldiers, is determined to find out what happened and writes to the horrifically wounded Kit Neville, the last man to see Toby alive. But Neville is in hospital, himself damaged beyond recognition, and he will not talk - until Elinor asks fellow soldier and her former lover Paul Tarrant for help. But are some truths better left concealed? 'Magnificent; I finished it eagerly, wanting to know what happened next, and as I read, I was enjoying, marvelling and learning.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun 'A heart-rending return to the Great War. A superb stylist . . . forensically observant and imaginatively sublime.' Independent 'Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative.' Sunday Telegraph 'Strong, truthful and beautifully controlled. Magnificent.' Saga 'Dark, painful, yet also tender. It succeeds brilliantly.' John Vernon, New York Times 'Raw, visceral . . . A fiercely honest account of the effects of war.' Daily Express 'The plot unfurls to a devastating conclusion . . . a very fine piece of work.' Melvyn Bragg, New Statesman Books of the Year

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 it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist�s model. As spring turns to summer, Paul and Elinor each reach a crisis in their relationships until finally, in the first few days of war, they turn to each other. Paul�s new life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade. The longer he remains in Ypres, the greater the distance between himself and home becomes, and by the time he returns, Paul must confront the fact that life, and love, will never be the same again.

Een 12-jarige jongen, die van zijn moeder geen informatie over zijn in de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleden vader kan loskrijgen, neemt zijn toevlucht tot fantasieën.

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into the water to save a man from drowning he opens a chapter from his past. The drowning man was Danny Miller, who Tom helped imprison for killing an old woman as a ten-year-old boy.

Double Vision is a thought-provoking, Booker Prize-winning novel that explores modern warfare through the eyes of war reporter Stephen Sharkey. After the death of his photographer friend in Afghanistan, Sharkey returns to an England seemingly at peace, yet he is haunted by nightmares of conflict. The narrative delves into the depths of man's inhumanity, both abroad and at home, and questions whether love can serve as a true redeemer amidst the chaos. The novel is characterized by its provocative intensity and emotional depth, making it a powerful commentary on contemporary conflicts. Critics have praised Barker for her ability to create brooding tension and for her superb writing that compels readers to turn each page. Her extraordinary talent lies in combining complexity with clarity, making her narratives both engaging and profound. The characters are vividly drawn, captivating readers from the start and maintaining their grip throughout the story. Barker, born in 1943, is renowned for her acclaimed Regeneration trilogy and other notable works such as Another World and Life Class. She resides in Durham, continuing to contribute significantly to contemporary literature.

In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death.

Roman über eine moderne Patchworkfamilie, die von der Vergangenheit eingeholt wird. Nick und Fran wollen endlich eine »richtige« Familie. Mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Jasper sowie Nicks Tochter aus erster Ehe, Miranda, und Frans Sohn Gareth ziehen sie in ein altes Haus am Rande von Newcastle. Doch die beiden Teenager sind an einem harmonischen Familienleben nicht interessiert: Miranda gibt sich als coole kleine Erwachsene, während Gareth in eine Welt brutaler Computerspiele und Gewaltvideos abtaucht. Fran, wieder schwanger, fühlt sich von Nick wenig unterstützt, denn dieser muß sich um seinen hochbetagten Großvater kümmern. Der 101jährige Geordie trägt immer noch schwer an seinen Erinnerungen an den Ersten Weltkrieg – seit damals lastet die Schuld am Tod seines Bruders auf ihm. Dann kommt in dem neuen Haus der Familie unter der alten Tapete ein schockierendes Gemälde zum Vorschein. Es ist ein Familienporträt, Vater, Mutter und drei Kinder, dargestellt in einer verstörend obszönen und haßerfüllten Weise – die früheren Bewohner des Hauses, die eine schreckliche Geschichte erlebt haben ...

Eine nordenglische Kleinstadt. Die Frauen im heruntergekommenen Arbeiterviertel Northgate führen ein hartes Leben. Sie arbeiten entweder am Fließband der örtlichen Hühnerfabrik oder verdienen ihr Geld auf dem Strich. Eine andere Wahl bleibt ihnen kaum. Seit Monaten schon treibt ein Prostituiertenmörder sein Unwesen. Die Polizei schaut tatenlos zu, wartet ab und benutzt die Frauen als Lockvögel, um den Täter zu fassen. Zur Zeit gibt es für Brenda, Jean und die anderen, die sich zum Aufwärmen mehrmals in der Nacht in ihre Stammkneipe flüchten, kein anderes Thema als die Jagd auf den Killer. Sie schließen sich zusammen und versuchen, sich gegenseitig zu schützen. Denn keine von ihnen kann es sich leisten, aufzuhören. Sie wissen alle, daß der nächste Freier oder einer ihrer Stammkunden der Täter sein kann.