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From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The final novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest wri...

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The Booker Prize-winning modern classic of contemporary war fiction from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard Osman 'One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jona...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of 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 From the Booker ...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the second novel in Pat Barker''s acclaimed ''Life Class'' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our greatest writers...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Noonday by Pat Barker, read by Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid & Finlay Robertson From the Booker Prize-winning and Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of...

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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening StandardThere was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been sile...

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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 ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard OsmanRegeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneratio...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsWINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZELondon, 1...

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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsA powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fictionReturning to Afghanista...

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Brought to you by Penguin. An unflinching novel on the nature of evil from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsWhen Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man fr...

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"Union Street," Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death,...

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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, a...

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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 hav...

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In the aftermath of covering 9/11, an English war reporter retreats to the countryside to write a book and enters into complicated relationships with a fallen colleague's family.

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'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, me...

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A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and "one of ...

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'Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing - you'll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting' NEW YORK TIMES 'A courageous and disturbing novel' ELIZABETH WARD, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 'Des...

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'A modern-day masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES 'The third, Liza's England, in many ways the most moving of the trilogy, tracks the life of a northern working-class woman from the beginning of the century to well into Thatcher's r...

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The second installment in the Regeneration Trilogy It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is faced with the possibility of defeat by Germany. A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosex...

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Tom Seymour is a child psychiatrist who has worked in the north of England for many years. One day, while walking by the river, he rescues a young man from drowning, and realizes it's a child murderer at whose trial he gave flawed evidence.

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This gripping novel explores the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing it.In the aftermath of September 11, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York City, two British journalist...

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A powerful anthem for the youth of World War One that offers a compassionate look at war and its devastating effects. Adapted from Pat Barker's Booker Prize-nominated novel. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sas...

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Was macht der Krieg mit der Kunst - und die Kunst mit dem Krieg?Elinor und Toby sind Schwester und Bruder, Freunde und engste Vertraute. Im Jahrhundertsommer 1912 verbringen sie eine Nacht gemeinsam in Tobys Zimmer. Ihr Geheimnis nimmt Elinor spÿ...

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Troja ist gefallen. Die Griechen haben ihren bitteren Krieg gewonnen und könnten als Sieger nach Hause zurückkehren. Alles, was sie brauchen, ist ein guter Wind, um ihre Segel zu setzen. Aber der Wind kommt nicht. Die Götter sind erzürnt und so ka...

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Roman nominalizat la COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 Finalist la WOMEN?S PRIZE FOR FICTION O carte splendid?? E ca ?i cum Barker ar fi g?sit un artefact cu un alfabet ÿnc? nedescifrat printre comorile str?lucitoare ale epopeii homerice. The New York Revie...

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Una dintre cele mai profunde si fascinante scriitoare contemporane."e; The Washington PostTroia a cazut, iar aheii, victoriosi, sunt nerabdatori sa se intoarca acasa cu prada unui razboi care parea ca nu se mai sfarseste. Ca sa poata pleca ina...

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Där Iliaden berättar om männen som stupade vid belägringen av Troja, vill Barker istället gestalta hur deras mödrar minns dem, hur de var som barn och den sorg de lämnar efter sig. Här styr hustrurnas och mödrarnas perspektiv, de som förbinder de ...

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Där Iliaden berättar om männen som stupade vid belägringen av Troja, vill Barker istället gestalta hur deras mödrar minns dem, hur de var som barn och den sorg de lämnar efter sig. Här styr hustrurnas och mödrarnas perspektiv, de som förbinder de ...

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