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Noonday by Pat Barker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
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 t ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Regeneration
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 m ...Show more
The Ghost Road: Popular Penguins by Pat Barker
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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: Historical | 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 Women of Troy by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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
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