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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 de read more
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When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped im read more
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Provocative, intense and deeply moving, Double Vision is a powerful story of one man’s quest to find redemption amidst the horror of twenty-first century war. Returning from Afghanistan after his photographer friend is read more
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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 Wilfre read more
About the Book: Toby's Room
Pat Barker returns to the First World War in this dark, compelling novel of humandesire, wartime horror and the power of friendship.
Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, friends read more
Pat Barker has contributed to The Eye in the Door[ Sound Recording] as an author.Pat Barker is the author of the highly acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy: "Regeneration; The Eye read more
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In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville — himself not l read more
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Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to read more
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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 read more
The Man Booker Prize Winner 1995
About the Book: The Ghost Road
1918, and Billy Prior is in France once again. A real test case for the 'shell-shock' therapies practised at Craiglockhart War Hospital where, with read more
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