The Ghost Road

Explore the incredible books that have won the prestigious Booker Prize and International Booker Prize.

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.

Pat Barker is an award winning British novelist, whose historical fiction often deals with themes of trauma, survival and recovery. Her Regeneration trilogy explores the horrors of the First World War, and more recently she's realesed a critically acclaimed trilogy telling the overlooked stories of the women of the Trojan War.