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Pat Barker

(b.1943)

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.

Series

Regeneration Trilogy
1. Regeneration (1991)
2. The Eye in the Door (1993)
3. The Ghost Road (1995)
The Regeneration Trilogy (omnibus) (1996)

Brooke Family
1. Life Class (2007)
2. Toby's Room (2012)
3. Noonday (2015)

Novels

Union Street (1982)
Blow Your House Down (1984)
The Century's Daughter (1986)
aka Liza's England
The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
Another World (1998)
Border Crossing (2001)
Double Vision (2003)
The Silence of the Girls (2018)

Non fiction

War Talk (2005)

Awards

	Guardian Fiction Prize Best Novel winner (1993) : The Eye in the Door
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1995) : The Ghost Road
	Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1995) : The Ghost Road
	Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2013) : Toby's Room

Pat Barker recommends

The Telling (1998)
Miranda Seymour
"One of the most skillful depictions of the power of evil I have read for a long time."

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