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Huyendo tanto de la realidad cotidiana de la guerra como de la desintegración de su matrimonio, Stephen escribe un libro sobre cómo la violencia se refleja en los medios de comunicación.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Regeneration Trilogy" comes an acknowledged masterpiece of modern fiction. "Life Class" is an exceptional new novel of artists and lovers caught in the maelstrom of the Great War.

Pat Barker returns to the subject of the First World War for this compelling novel about young people learning the ordinary lessons of life, love and friendship, in the midst of extraordinary times. A young couple meet at the Slade School of Art, recognising their feelings for one another just as war breaks out. Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy" is reissued with similar cover style this month, and this is sure to be a bestseller. 'Extraordinaril...

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the...

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 long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down.

In the aftermath of covering 9/11, an English war reporter retreats to the countryside to write a book and enters into complicated relationships with a fallen colleague's family.

This gripping novel explores the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing it. In the aftermath of September 11, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York City, two British journalists, a writer, Stephen Sharkey, and a photographer, Ben Frobisher, part ways. Stephen returns to England shattered, he divorces his duplicitous wife and quits his job. Ben follows the war on terror to ...

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Twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to films for images of what his father might have been. Weaving in and out of Colin's real life, his imagined film explores issues of loyalty and betrayal and searches for the answer to the question 'What is a man?

Liza Garrett is the first child in town born in the twentieth century--whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoils of England itself. The tough, severe, but very real and recognizable world of women is put to the most strenuous tests, and Liza, at eighty-four, is proof that loyalty, fortitude and humor survive.