Pat Barker

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1983
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Union Street

    '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, meeti...

  • Blow Your House Down

    '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 'Despite its black humour, it is a de...

  • The Centurys Daughter

  • Century's Daughter

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    In Pat Barker's" The Man Who Wasn't There," 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 film...

  • Regeneration

    “Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.” -- The Boston GlobeThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy -- a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainm...

  • The Eye in the Door

    In this haunting second installment of the Regeneration Trilogy, a World War I officer grapples with the complex realities of PTSD, identity, sexuality, and society’s perceptions of mental illness. It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is face...

  • The Ghost Road

    1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly 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. As R...

  • The Regeneration Trilogy

    The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to ...



  • Another World

    Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick's grandfather Gordie lays dying as Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. As Nick's suburban family loses control over their world, Nick...

  • Border Crossing

    The basis for the major motion picture The Drowning from the Booker Prize"winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and The Silence of the Girls.Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the River Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to ...

  • Liza's England

    In Pat Barker's Liza's England, 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...

  • Double Vision

    Double Vision from Pat Barker, a gripping novel about the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing itIn the aftermath of September 11, 2001, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York C...

  • War Talk

    Taken from pat barkers celebrated regeneration, war talk charts two encounters in a time of war the developing friendship of wilfed owen and siegfried sassoon, and the unexpected romance of billy prior and sarah lumb...

  • Life Class

    It is the spring of 1914 and a group of young students have gathered in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two parts of an intriguing love triangle and, in the first days of war, they turn to each other. As spr...

  • Toby's Room

    From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of Downton Abbey and War Horse will be enthralled. With Toby’s Room, a sequel t...

  • Noonday

    London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband...

  • The Silence of the Girls

    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 ...

  • The Women of Troy

    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 cont...



  • The Voyage Home

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series. • In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker skillfully reimagines Greek mythology, chronicling a perilous journey undertake...

Award-Winning Books by Pat Barker

The Ghost Road
1995 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pat Barker has published 20 books.

Pat Barker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Voyage Home, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Pat Barker, Union Street, was published in September 1983.

No. Pat Barker does not write books in series.
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