Books by Pat Barker

Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother killed, Geordie lies dying as his grandson Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. Looking after two-year-old Jasper is an exhausting business for Nick and his pregnant wife Fran, aggravated by the resentments of bitterly contentious stepchildren Gareth and Miranda. As Nick's suburban family loses control over their world, Nick begins to learn his grandfather's buried secrets and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present. A riveting study of the power of memory and of loss, Another World conveys with extraordinary intensity the ways in which the violent past returns to haunt and distort the present.

A psychopathic killer stalks prostitutes in England's industrial north, and the reign of terror has a profound impact--both for evil and good--on the women working in the city's red-light district.

A psychiatrist rescues a man from drowning, and it turns out to be an accused child murderer whom he once testified against. Over the years, he became unsure of his evidence. Now he is faced with the man he sent to jail--who wants to be taken on as a patient. In the course of the relationship between these two men, Barker explores the mind of a psychopath, and the way he has been formed by the moral tenor of our times. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Born in the first moments of the twentieth century, Liza Jarrett grows up to live the hard life of an English working-class woman.

Profoundly affected by the events of September 11th and its aftermath, two British journalists return to England--Stephen Sharkey to divorce and quitting his job, and photographer Ben Frobisher to follow the war on terror to Afghanistan and death on the battlefield--in a gripping study of the effects of violence on those who come in contact with it. Reprint.

The second volume in Pat Barker's acclaimed World War I trilogy continues the story of the victims of shell shock in World War I trench warfare, and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to cure their trauma at Craiglockhart Hospital. This volume concentrates on the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his conflicting attitudes toward the war in which he fought, and on the bisexual lieutenant, Billy Pryor, who struggles not only with the question of his sexual identity but with society's preoccupation with class, status, and heroism. The consequences of the persecution of homosexuals and pacifists in wartime Britain is vividly depicted.

The Eye in the Door is the richly deserving winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, the second volume in Pat Barker's brilliant Regeneration Trilogy. Written with immense power, it is the story not just of one young man suffering from the trauma of war, but of a generation condemned to the unending slaughter of the trenches, and all the charged agony of class and gender that had its own bitter harvest. But for all the pain she portrays, Barker's novel, with its wry humour and exquisite observation, explodes with life.

The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.

Capturing the devastation and psychological trauma of the Great War on every level of British society, a new novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Ghost Road focuses on a group of young art students, including Paul Tarrant, a Red Cross volunteer, who soon discovers that life, love, and art will never be the same. Simultaneous.

Liza Garrett is the first child in town born in the twentieth century-whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoil 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.

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?'

The first novel in Barker's World War I trilogy. Siegfried Sassoon, a homosexual and a poet, protests the war with a statement in a London newspaper and, rather than being court-martialed, is sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital in the care of a psychiatrist, William Rivers, who specializes in shell-shock. His treatment of Sassoon and the other patients at the hospital--among them poet Wilfred Owen--leads him to question the rationale for his work: to send these men back to the front. The novel is an eloquent protest of the madness of war.

A trilogy of novels set during World War I which mingle real and fictional characters. "The Ghost Road" won the 1995 Booker Prize.

Tells the stories of seven women and their families living in the financially distressed area of a Northeastern industrial city in England.

Tells the stories of seven women and their families living in the financially distressed area of a northeastern industrial city in England; and, a psychopathic killer stalks prostitutes in England's industrial north.