Another World

Author: Pat Barker

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, ,’Gripping in the best, most exquisite sense of the word’ Mail on Sunday’Utterly compelling… She is a novelist who probes deep, revealing what people prefer to keep hidden’ Scotsman, ,’Extraordinary… Without question the best novel I have read this year’ Daily Mail’Brillia….Read More

9 Books Similar to Another World

The Bookshop

Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found here and hereIn the small East Anglian coastal town of Hardborough, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to… Continue Reading Posted in: Booksellers & Bookselling, English Fiction, Fiction In English 1945 1999 Texts, Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction, TV, Widows

Two Lives

William Trevor's astonishing range as a writer--his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of human behavior--is fully demonstrated in these two short novels. In Reading Turgenev, a lonely country girl escapes… Continue Reading Posted in: British & Irish Literature, British Contemporary Literature, English Fiction, Ex Prostitutes, Ireland

Feast: Food to Celebrate Life

If you consider eating with friends and family a joyful, indulgent celebration chances are you love a good feast. And who better to carefully guide you through the daunting task… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, British, Cookery, Holiday Cooking

A Handful of Dust

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Classic Literary Fiction, English Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Satire

The Blackwater Lightship

In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy… Continue Reading Posted in: Bereavement, Contemporary British & Irish Literature, Family Relationships, LGBT Literary Fiction, Social Life And Customs

The Ghost Road

The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize "The Ghost Road" is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy.… Continue Reading Posted in: 1914 1918, Historical British & Irish Literature, Military Historical Fiction, Psychiatrists, Soldiers, World War

The Eye in the Door

Pat Barker's brilliant antiwar novel, Regeneration, was widely hailed as a masterpiece and was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of… Continue Reading Posted in: British & Irish Literary Fiction, LGBT Literary Fiction, Literature, Medicine, Novels

Beloved

In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, History, Slavery

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