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Pat Barker
Pat Barker was born in 1943. She was chosen in 1983 as one of the twenty ‘Best of Young British’ novelists and won the Booker Prize with The Ghost Road in 1995. In 2000, she received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her contribution to the literary world. Her work focuses on survival, tragedy and hope. She lives in Durham.
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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…
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Liza's England
'A modern-day masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES 'The third, Liza's England, in many ways the most moving of the trilogy, tracks the life of a northern working-class…
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Union Street
'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN…