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Another World by Pat Barker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At 101, 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 ghosts of the trenches and the horrors surrounding his brother's death. But in Nick's family home the dark pressures of the past also encr ...Show more
Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the women who walk the streets. But life and work go on. Brenda, with three children, can't afford to give u ...Show more
Eye in the Door (Popular Penguin) by Pat Barker
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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
Life Class by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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 human heart 'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Time ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When war breaks out in 1914, Paul Tarrant, a student at the Slade School of Art, leaves behind his attempted life as an artist and his beautiful fellow-student Elinore to tend to casualties on the front line. His life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade, y ...Show more
Noonday by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, their manes and tails on fire...' London, the Blitz, autumn 19 ...Show more
Noonday by Pat Barker
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Regeneration by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
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 Sie ...Show more
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 by Pat Barker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Regeneration Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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