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Life Class by Pat Barker
$29.00 NZD
Category: World 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: World 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: World 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: World 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
$21.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration Trilogy - comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Doorand The Ghost Road- is the heart-rending story of the last two years of the First World War seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior. As Rivers struggles with th ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls. Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - a ...Show more
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