Purchase a copy of The Women of Troy through our Bookshop affiliate link. This pre-recorded event is available to ticket holders to watch on demand until 31 October.Ĭaptions will be provided for this event. She has now published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK’s highest literary honour, the Booker Prize.Ĭhaired by Dr Eleanor Spencer-Regan, Durham University She began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and lives in Durham. She forges alliances where she can – with young, dangerously naive Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba – and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Largely unnoticed by her captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. The gods have been offended and so the victors remain camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed. The follow-up to Pat Barkers Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra - daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. The Greeks have won their bitter war and they can return home victors, all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. Pat joins us in Durham University’s historic Bishop Cosin’s Library, to talk about her acclaimed career and her new novel, The Women of Troy.įollowing her bestselling, Women’s Prize shortlisted novel The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. We are thrilled to present a special event with Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker. Book tickets or watch again until 31 October here

The women of troy by pat barker