From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?Last month, a reformed Glaswegian gang member, a former personal trainer and a Booker prize winner all glammed up for a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-15 08:00:36 UTC ]
A podcast has launched aimed at helping aspiring writers to write a novel, with guest speakers including acclaimed authors such as David Nicholls and Pat Barker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 02:25:32 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has scooped the follow-up to Pat Barker's bestseller The Women of Troy (Penguin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-08 05:47:02 UTC ]
The follow-up to “The Silence of the Girls” follows Briseis after the death of Achilles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has acquired the audio rights for Pat Barker's catalogue, commissioning new readings by a star cast including include Simon Russell Beale (pictured). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 02:15:03 UTC ]
Pat Barker says she has a distrust of the publishing industry’s regional and class diversity drives because it could be "fashionable" and may not represent a long-term commitment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-27 18:57:47 UTC ]
Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (Hamish Hamilton), has been taken up as an "ambitious" film project by the BBC and Element Pictures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pat Barker’s latest novel may be set 4,000 years ago but there are plenty of parallels with modernity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has acquired a new novel by Booker Prize winner Pat Barker retelling "one of the most dramatic sequences of events in literature", the Iliad. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]