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Aug 21, 2024 · And now the final novel in Pat Barker’s Trojan War series, The Voyage Home, is here.
Aug 18, 2024 · The author on her latest Iliad-inspired work, The Voyage Home; how not knowing her father’s identity has driven her work; and the strange business of film adaptations. Pat Barker: 'The last ...
Aug 15, 2024 · Pat Barker’s third Trojan War story takes some of the women from the first two novels back to Greece in the fleet of the conquering Agamemnon. They are the Trojan princess Cassandra, now the concubine of Agamemnon and her slave, the down-to earth Ritsa.
Aug 8, 2024 · Pat Barker’s The Voyage Home is the Medusa meme in novel format. It is the story of Cassandra, a royal priestess of Troy enslaved as a concubine by the Greek king Agamemnon. Yet Medusa’s image ...
Aug 10, 2024 · With her latest book, The Voyage Home, Barker completes another trilogy, a rich and electrifying reimagining of Homer’s The Iliad told from a female perspective.
Sep 3, 2024 · It is the future – treacherous, murky and uncertain, despite Cassandra’s prophecies – that concerns Pat Barker in The Voyage Home, the final instalment of her trilogy about the Trojan wars ...
Sep 20, 2024 · ‘Lies, secrets, silences make a writer’ … Pat Barker. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer. My earliest reading memory Four years old, teaching myself to read with a girls’ school annual my grandad brought back from a jumble sale. One of the stories involved a lacrosse match between two girls’ boarding schools.
Jan 19, 2024 · With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations.
Jul 30, 2024 · Benjamin Myers first came across the Booker prize-winning author Pat Barker when he was seven or eight and, though he didn’t read her till much later, she made an impression, even then. “I was on holiday with my parents and found a copy of Union Street, Pat’s first novel,” he recalls.
Aug 13, 2024 · Fiction. Book reviews. Pat Barker. In the third volume of this superb trilogy exploring the lives of women taken captive in the Trojan War, a new narrator takes us on a journey back to...
