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The Games of London will stand out as the most memorable gathering of athletes ever seen in the world.'Lord Desborough, head of the British Olympic CommitteeOver one hundred years ago, London hosted its first Olympic Games. It was a world away from the modern-day Olympics - everything was built and organised in less than two years, and at a minute fraction of today's costs. 'Amateur pluck' was still the highest virtue - or so the British Olymp...

In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Pat Barker is unrivaled in her ability to convey simple, moving human truths. Her skill in relaying ...

Barker confirms her place in the pantheon of Britain's finest novelists with a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of the Regeneration trilogy and fans of "Downton Abbey" alike will be enthralled.

* an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize

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A new stage adaptation of Pat Barker's acclaimed novel about World War One, and poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

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A new novel from the Booker Prize-winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz and reaffirms her place as a top-ranked British novelistLondon, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals in order to save the lives of injured survivors. She works alongside former friend Kit Neville while her hus...

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In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Pat Barker is unrivaled in her ability to convey simple, moving human truths. Her skill in relaying ...

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Union Street, " Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse, one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult, all are struggling to survive. First published in 1982, it was made into the film" Stanley & Iris" by MGM in 1989, starring Robert DeNiro and Jane F...

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