Pat Barker Books In Order

Brooke Family Books In Publication Order

  1. Life Class (2007)
  2. Toby’s Room (2012)
  3. Noonday (2015)

Regeneration Books In Publication Order

  1. Regeneration (1991)
  2. The Eye in the Door (1993)
  3. The Ghost Road (1995)

Women Of Troy Books In Publication Order

  1. The Women of Troy (2021)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Union Street (1982)
  2. Blow Your House Down (1984)
  3. The Century’s Daughter / Liza’s England (1986)
  4. The Man Who Wasn’t There (1989)
  5. Another World (1998)
  6. Border Crossing (2001)
  7. Double Vision (2003)
  8. The Silence of the Girls (2018)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. War Talk (2005)

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Pat Barker Books Overview

Life Class

From the Booker Prize winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, an acknowledged masterpiece of modern fiction, Life Class is an exceptional new novel of artists and lovers caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. It is the spring of 1914 and a group of young students have gathered in an art studio for a life drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two parts of an intriguing love triangle and, in the first days of war, they turn to each other. As spring turns to summer, Paul volunteers for the Belgian Red Cross and tends to wounded, dying soldiers from the front line. By the time he returns, Paul must confront the fact that life and love will never be the same for him again. In Life Class, Pat Barker returns to her most renowned subject: the human devastation and psychic damage wrought by World War One on all levels of British society. Her skill in relaying the harrowing experience of modern warfare is matched by the depth of insight she brings to the experience of love and the morality of art in a time of war. Life Class is one of her genuine masterpieces.

Regeneration

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’ 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 Eye in the Door

Set in London in 1918, ‘The Eye in the Door‘ is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in ‘Regeneration’. ‘The Eye in the Door‘ was awarded the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, while the final volume in the ‘Regeneration’ trilogy, ‘The Ghost Road’, won the Booker Prize in 1995. Writing in the ‘Sunday Times’, Peter Kemp said, ‘In the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly forms. At the forefront of her story, Barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals…
a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor’.

The Ghost Road

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Union Street

‘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.

Blow Your House Down

A city and its people are in the terrifying grip of a killer. Singling out prostitutes, the face of his latest victim stares out of every newspaper, haunting the women who walk the streets. But life and work go on. Brenda, mother of three, can t afford to give up, while Audrey, now in her forties, desperately goes on ‘working the cars.’ And then, when another woman is savagely murdered, her lover Jean takes desperate measures. Pat Barker is the author of the widely hailed Regeneration trilogy, which includes The Ghost Road, winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.

The Century’s Daughter / Liza’s England

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.

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Twelve year old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to films for images of what his father might have been. Weaving in and out of Colin’s real life, his imagined film explores issues of loyalty and betrayal and searches for the answer to the question ‘What is a man?’

Another World

The new novel by the author of the acclaimed Regeneration trilogy. Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it’s not an ever rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow…
During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick’s grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother’s death in the painful days before his own. Meanwhile, at Lob’s Hill, on the other side of the city, Nick and his pregnant wife, Fran, are failing to keep the peace in their increasingly fractious home. In an attempt to unite the family, Fran organizes the children into decorating the living room. As the old wallpaper is peeled away, a vigorous and obscene drawing of an Edwardian family is revealed. The portrait it reveals is the history of their home, casting a terrifying shadow over the family. Another World is an extraordinarily powerful study of memory, and of the various ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present.

Border Crossing

Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom’s spontaneous act saves the life of someone whose past, as well as his future, he feels a sense of responsibility towards. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny Miller was tried for murder as a ten year old on the basis of Tom’s testimony, and as*sessment of him as a psychologist and an expert witness. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his life beginning with his past Tom is drawn into a lonely, soul searching reinvestigation of the child murderer’s case.

Double Vision

A gripping novel about the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing itIn the aftermath of September 11, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York City, two British journalists, a writer, Stephen Sharkey, and a photographer, Ben Frobisher, part ways. Stephen, facing the almost simultaneous discovery that his wife is having an affair, returns to England shattered; he divorces and quits his job. Ben returns to his vocation. He follows the war on terror to Afghanistan and is killed. Stephen retreats to a cottage in the country to write a book about violence, and what he sees as the reporting journalist’s or photographer’s complicity in it; it is a book that will build in large part on Ben’s writing and photography. Ben’s widow, Kate, a sculptor, lives nearby, and as she and Stephen learn about each other their world speedily shrinks, in pleasing but also disturbing ways; Stephen’s maid, with whom he has begun an affair, was once lovers with Kate’s new studio assistant, an odd local man named Peter. As these connections become clear, Peter’s strange behavior around Stephen and Kate begins to take on threatening implications. The sinister events that take place in this small town, so far from the theaters of war Stephen has retreated from, will force him to act instinctively, violently, and to face his most painful revelations about himself.

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