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Pat Barker


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Pat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Union Street, her first novel, was published by Virago in 1982 to huge critical acclaim. Barker won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1993 and the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Durham.
 

Awards: Booker (1995)  see all

Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
 
Series
Regeneration Trilogy
   1. Regeneration (1991)
   2. The Eye in the Door (1993)
   3. The Ghost Road (1995)
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Brooke Family
   1. Life Class (2007)
   2. Toby's Room (2012)
   3. Noonday (2015)
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Troy
   1. The Silence of the Girls (2018)
   2. The Women of Troy (2021)
   3. The Voyage Home (2024)
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Novels
   Union Street (1982)
   Blow Your House Down (1984)
   Liza's England (1986)
     aka The Century's Daughter
   The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
   Another World (1998)
   Border Crossing (2001)
   Double Vision (2003)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Pat Barker
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The Vintage Book of War Stories (1999)
edited by
Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen
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Granta 7 (1983)
The Best of Young British Novelists 1
(Granta, book 7)
edited by
Bill Burford

Awards
2019 Indie Book Award for Fiction : The Silence of the Girls
1995 Booker Prize : The Ghost Road
1993 Guardian Fiction Prize : The Eye in the Door
1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations
2020 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Silence of the Girls
2019 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Silence of the Girls
2018 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Silence of the Girls
2013 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : Toby's Room
1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Ghost Road
1995 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : The Ghost Road


Pat Barker recommends
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The Proof of My Innocence (2024)
Jonathan Coe
"A novelist who gains in range and reputation with every book."
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A Spell of Good Things (2023)
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
"A moving story, skillfully told, about Eniola, a boy whose future has been snatched away from him, and Wuraola, a talented, overworked junior doctor, whose intertwined narratives combine to produce an insightful portrait of an unequal and deeply divided society moving towards a terrible crisis. A Spell of Good Things is both gripping and memorable."
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When We Were Birds (2022)
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
"Combining the richness of myth with razor-sharp observation of contemporary life, When We Were Birds marks the emergence of a distinctive and powerful voice."

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