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Eye in the Door (Popular Penguin) by Pat Barker
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins
London, 1918. Billy Prior works for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men, pacifists, objectors and homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and before long his sense of himself fragments. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | 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
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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 Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Regeneration Ser.
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. This book offers an account of the devastating final months of the First World War ...Show more
The Ghost Road: Popular Penguins by Pat Barker
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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 Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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: New 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls, an extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths from one of best writers of war fiction 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 sa ...Show more
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, friends and confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from the summer of 1912 into the battlefields of France and wartime London in 1917. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exac ...Show more