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Border Crossing by Pat Barker
29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's new novel portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has recons ...Show more
Double Vision by Pat Barker
27.00 NZD
29.00 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction
Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares - Stephen Sharkey is suffering the after effects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday r ...Show more
Double Vision by Pat Barker
29.95 NZD
37.95 (21% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Stephen Sharkey and Ben Frobisher, journalist and photographer respectively, are regularly faced with the reality of war. After Ben dies on assignment in Afghanistan, Stephen embarks on a book about the images of war - a book that will be based largely on Ben's work. But the demands of the present - rec ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Life Class is Pat Barker's powerful and unforgettable story of art and war. Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When war breaks out in 1914, Paul Tarrant, a student at the Slade School of Art, leaves behind his attempted life as an artist and his beautiful fellow-student Elinore to tend to casualties on the front line. His life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade, y ...Show more
Noonday by Pat Barker
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Tarrant, Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville first met in 1914 at the Slade School of Art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have even t ...Show more
Noonday by Pat Barker
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, their manes and tails on fire...' London, the Blitz, autumn 19 ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In Craiglockhart war hospital, Doctor William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers from World War I. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the authorities decide to have him declared mentally defective and send him to Craiglockhart.
Regeneration by Pat Barker
24.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims - whatever they may be - and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Sie ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
12.99 NZD
13.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri ...Show more
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
24.99 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Drawing of the history of the Pemberton Billing libel trial in which all Britain's military troubles were laid at the door of the British homosexuals, themes of persecution and prejudice are explored alongside questions of class and identity. The Eye in the Door, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Pr ...Show more
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The\Regeneration Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intenstiy with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist Wi ...Show more