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Pat Barker

July 2024

  • Ben Myers and Pat Barker<br>Writers Ben Myer and Pat Barker, Durham, UK.

    Books interview
    Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

    Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read

December 2022

  • A vintage typewriter surrounded by sheets of crumpled paper

    The Guardian view on declining authors’ pay: an unequal burden

    Editorial: A steep slump in average earnings not only affects individuals, but impoverishes literature by dictating which stories get told

November 2022

  • Composite of book covers: Outline, The Silence of the Girls and Death in Her Hands

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November

    Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

January 2022

  • Captive Andromache by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths

    From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction

August 2021

  • Greek attic pottery depicting Greek women wearing festive clothing collecting water for a bride from the fountain Callirrhoe. Dated 400 B.C.<br>E1GG62 Greek attic pottery depicting Greek women wearing festive clothing collecting water for a bride from the fountain Callirrhoe. Dated 400 B.C.

    The Women of Troy by Pat Barker review – a Troy story for the sisterhood

    Moving from Homer to Virgil, Pat Barker’s second feminist reboot of the classics is a stirring adventure set amid a misogynist dystopia
  • Excerpt from ‘Briseis Led from the Tent of Achilles’ by Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays (1761).

    Book of the day
    The Women of Troy by Pat Barker review – bleak and impressive

    In the sequel to her Iliad retelling The Silence of the Girls, told from the perspective of captured queen Briseis, Barker moves on from war to its aftermath
  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Eurybates and Talthybios Lead Briseis to Agamemmon - WGA22334<br>HKWKP0 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Eurybates and Talthybios Lead Briseis to Agamemmon - WGA22334

    Pat Barker on The Silence of the Girls: ‘The Iliad is myth – the rules for writing historical fiction don’t apply’

    The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one day

May 2021

  • Jane Rogers

    Jane Rogers on writing Mr Wroe’s Virgins: ‘I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder’

    Looking to take on the very male literary world of the 1980s, Rogers turned to areas in which women could find meaning outside motherhood: work, religion, love

May 2020

  • Office in a Small City 1953 Edward Hopper American United States of American<br>Office in a Small City 1953 Edward Hopper American United States of American

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about silence

    Not saying anything can be as eloquent as speech, as told by authors from ranging from Pat Barker to Carson McCullers and Ian McEwan

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

    Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000

June 2019

  • People relaxing on lawn in late afternoon summer sunshine in garden area at Hay Festival

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Hay festival special with Pat Barker, John Lanchester, Max Porter and more – books podcast

    Claire and Sian bring you some of the highlights from the annual books festival held in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye

May 2019

  • Pat Barker at the Hay festival

    Pat Barker says she distrusts publishers’ ‘fashionable’ efforts to boost diversity

  • Unreliable narration ... a psychotherapy session.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about psychotherapy

April 2019

  • A detail from a fresco taken Monday, November 6, 2000, shows the roman divinity Calliope, Muse of epic poetry, portrayed on the walls of the recently rediscovered ruins of what is believed to be the ancient guest house of Roman Pompeii, Italy. Excavations for an extension of the Naples-Salerno highway brought light on a 1000 square meters construction, forgotten since its first discovery in 1959. Archeologists believe that these frescoes, of extreme importance for their beauty and technique, could prove that the Roman Pompeii was not declining in importance when covered by ashes in 79 a.D. (AP Photo/Pasquale Sorrentino)

    Epic win! Why women are lining up to reboot the classics

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    Feminist retellings of history dominate 2019 Women's prize shortlist

January 2019

  • Pat Barker. Barker’s new novel returns to the subject of the Regeneration trilogy, which won her a film deal for Regeneration (1991), the Booker prize for The Ghost Road (1995)

    Pat Barker: ‘You could argue that time’s up: we’re at the end of patriarchy'

    The author of the Regeneration trilogy on Brexit, #MeToo – and rewriting the Iliad from a female perspective for her Costa-shortlisted novel The Silence of the Girls

November 2018

  • a still from the 1997 film of Regeneration.

    Top 10s
    From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war

    Authors such as Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker show how the conflict’s devastating impact carried on long after the 1918 armistice

October 2018

  • Kerry Fox as Janet Frame in the film version of An Angel at My Table.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about psychiatry

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 30: English writer and novelist Pat Barker attends a photocall at Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 30, 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

    ‘So what’ fiction isn't creating passionate readers, says Pat Barker

August 2018

  • Pat Barker

    Books that made me
    Pat Barker: ‘For women, European literature begins with silence’

    The author on life-changing Homer, Antony Sher’s humour and a poem by a man condemned to die
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