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In a world of lies, the truth is her deadliest weapon.\n \n Sierra Coleman awakens from a horrific crash, her mind a blank slate. But as she claws her way back to reality, she discovers her amnesia is just the tip of a sinister iceberg. Every \"truth\" she uncovers is another lie, every ally a potential enemy.\n \n With a daughter she can't remember and a life she doesn't recognize, Sierra is thrust into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. As bodies pile up and shocking betrayals come to light, she realizes the key to her survival lies buried in her forgotten past.\n \n Barker's razor-sharp prose slices through the pages, each revelation more stunning than the last. This relentless, twist-filled rollercoaster will have you questioning everything until its explosive finale.

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Heart-rending... Toby's Room anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender' Independent\n\n'Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative' Sunday Telegraph\n\nWhen Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss.\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Heart-rending... Toby's Room anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender' Independent\n\n'Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative' Sunday Telegraph\n\nWhen Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss.\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

The most mesmerising, unsettling novel of 2025, perfect for fans of David Mitchell, Julia Armfield, and Margaret Atwood.\n\n'Sinister, mysterious and gorgeously realised' KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time\n\n'Old Soul will sneak into your dreams and haunt you' CLAIRE FULLER, author of Unsettled Ground\n\n---\n\nThe woman never goes by the same name.\nShe never stays in the same place too long.\nShe never ages. She never dies.\nBut those around her do.\n\nWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.\n\nEach encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.\n\nJake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.\n\nAnd, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.\n\nBut will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?\n\n---\n\n'Snags the reader in its claw and mesmerizes from page one' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch\n\n'Like nothing else I've ever read ... The kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin to flicker out around you' Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'\n\n'Beguiles, terrifies and utterly seduces you ... At once a thriller, a postmodern mystery and an existential horror tale' Megan Abbott, author of El Dorado Drive\n\n'Brilliant, horrifying ... So much fun, fantastically tense and wonderful' Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes\n\n'Clever, spooky ... Kept me guessing to the end' Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists\n\n'A mesmerizing story, brilliantly told' Ian McGuire, author of The North Water\n\n'Smart, taut and twisty ... Deftly delivers the chills' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017*\n*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018*\n*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018*\n\nA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR\nA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR\nAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR\n\nFrom the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker-shortlisted Nicola Barker comes a new novel, a post-post apocalyptic story that overflows with pure creative talent.\n\nImagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a System which both nurtures and protects. A Community which nourishes and sustains. An infinite world. A world without sickness, without death. A world without God. A world without fear.\n\nCould you...might you be happy there?\n\nH(A)PPY is a post-post apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland, a story which tells itself and then consumes itself. It's a place where language glows, where words buzz and sparkle and finally implode. It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph – a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty.

The most mesmerising, unsettling novel of 2025, perfect for fans of David Mitchell, Julia Armfield, and Margaret Atwood.\n\n'Sinister, mysterious and gorgeously realised' KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time\n\n'Old Soul will sneak into your dreams and haunt you' CLAIRE FULLER, author of Unsettled Ground\n\n---\n\nThe woman never goes by the same name.\nShe never stays in the same place too long.\nShe never ages. She never dies.\nBut those around her do.\n\nWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.\n\nEach encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.\n\nJake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.\n\nAnd, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.\n\nBut will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?\n\n---\n\n'Snags the reader in its claw and mesmerizes from page one' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch\n\n'Like nothing else I've ever read ... The kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin to flicker out around you' Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'\n\n'Beguiles, terrifies and utterly seduces you ... At once a thriller, a postmodern mystery and an existential horror tale' Megan Abbott, author of El Dorado Drive\n\n'Brilliant, horrifying ... So much fun, fantastically tense and wonderful' Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes\n\n'Clever, spooky ... Kept me guessing to the end' Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists\n\n'A mesmerizing story, brilliantly told' Ian McGuire, author of The North Water\n\n'Smart, taut and twisty ... Deftly delivers the chills' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017*\n*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018*\n*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018*\n\nA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR\nA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR\nAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR\n\nFrom the internationally acclaimed, Man Booker-shortlisted Nicola Barker comes a new novel, a post-post apocalyptic story that overflows with pure creative talent.\n\nImagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a System which both nurtures and protects. A Community which nourishes and sustains. An infinite world. A world without sickness, without death. A world without God. A world without fear.\n\nCould you...might you be happy there?\n\nH(A)PPY is a post-post apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland, a story which tells itself and then consumes itself. It's a place where language glows, where words buzz and sparkle and finally implode. It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph – a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty.

The most mesmerising, unsettling novel of 2025, perfect for fans of David Mitchell, Julia Armfield, and Margaret Atwood.\n\n'Sinister, mysterious and gorgeously realised' KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time\n\n'Old Soul will sneak into your dreams and haunt you' CLAIRE FULLER, author of Unsettled Ground\n\n---\n\nThe woman never goes by the same name.\nShe never stays in the same place too long.\nShe never ages. She never dies.\nBut those around her do.\n\nWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.\n\nEach encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.\n\nJake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.\n\nAnd, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.\n\nBut will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?\n\n---\n\n'Snags the reader in its claw and mesmerizes from page one' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch\n\n'Like nothing else I've ever read ... The kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin to flicker out around you' Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'\n\n'Beguiles, terrifies and utterly seduces you ... At once a thriller, a postmodern mystery and an existential horror tale' Megan Abbott, author of El Dorado Drive\n\n'Brilliant, horrifying ... So much fun, fantastically tense and wonderful' Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes\n\n'Clever, spooky ... Kept me guessing to the end' Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists\n\n'A mesmerizing story, brilliantly told' Ian McGuire, author of The North Water\n\n'Smart, taut and twisty ... Deftly delivers the chills' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times\n\n'Barker writes as brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down' Independent on Sunday\n\n'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively\n\n'Extraordinarily powerful' Sunday Telegraph \n\nSpring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times\n\n'Barker writes as brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down' Independent on Sunday\n\n'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively\n\n'Extraordinarily powerful' Sunday Telegraph \n\nSpring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times\n\n'Barker writes as brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down' Independent on Sunday\n\n'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively\n\n'Extraordinarily powerful' Sunday Telegraph \n\nSpring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls\n\n'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe\n\n'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times\n\n'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent\n\n1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.\n\nThe Regeneration Trilogy:\nRegeneration\nThe Eye in the Door\nThe Ghost Road

The most mesmerising, unsettling novel of 2025, perfect for fans of David Mitchell, Julia Armfield, and Margaret Atwood.\n\n'Sinister, mysterious and gorgeously realised' KALIANE BRADLEY, author of The Ministry of Time\n\n'Old Soul will sneak into your dreams and haunt you' CLAIRE FULLER, author of Unsettled Ground\n\n---\n\nThe woman never goes by the same name.\nShe never stays in the same place too long.\nShe never ages. She never dies.\nBut those around her do.\n\nWhen two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.\n\nEach encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.\n\nJake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.\n\nAnd, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.\n\nBut will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?\n\n---\n\n'Snags the reader in its claw and mesmerizes from page one' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch\n\n'Like nothing else I've ever read ... The kind of story you tell around a campfire as the lights of civilization begin to flicker out around you' Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'\n\n'Beguiles, terrifies and utterly seduces you ... At once a thriller, a postmodern mystery and an existential horror tale' Megan Abbott, author of El Dorado Drive\n\n'Brilliant, horrifying ... So much fun, fantastically tense and wonderful' Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes\n\n'Clever, spooky ... Kept me guessing to the end' Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists\n\n'A mesmerizing story, brilliantly told' Ian McGuire, author of The North Water\n\n'Smart, taut and twisty ... Deftly delivers the chills' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Times\n\n'Barker writes as brilliantly as ever... With great tenderness and insight she conveys a wartime world turned upside down' Independent on Sunday\n\n'Masterly, gripping' Penelope Lively\n\n'Extraordinarily powerful' Sunday Telegraph \n\nSpring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls\n\n'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe\n\n'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph' Sunday Times\n\n'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent\n\n1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.\n\nThe Regeneration Trilogy:\nRegeneration\nThe Eye in the Door\nThe Ghost Road

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls \n\nThe final novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart\n\n'Bold, hard-hitting, unforgettable, with luminous and unsparing insight' Independent on Sunday\n\n'Barker's command of detail and gift for metaphor are as sharp as ever... Noonday is in the first rank' Mail on Sunday\n\n'[There is] no end to her talent in describing how conflicts rupture the soul' Arifa Akbar, Independent\n\nLondon, the Blitz, autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old loves and obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice. Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life.\n\nThe Life Class trilogy:\nLife Class\nToby's Room\nNoonday

THE EXHILARATING FOLLOW-UP TO PAT BARKER'S THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS\n\nAfter ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.\n\nAlongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death – and her own – while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra’s frenzies and the horrors to come.\n\nMeanwhile, awaiting the fleet’s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband’s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.\n\nAs one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.\n\n‘The queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greece’ National Geographic\n\n‘In her thrilling retelling of the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra, Barker conjures up a world stained by the grief of mothers and daughters. Agamemnon’s palace is the stuff of nightmares, a world of suspicion and fear, plagued by the ghosts of innocents’ Paula Hawkins\n\n'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world' Guardian\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025\n\nInstant Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls\n\n'Brilliant, masterful . . . Barker strips away the glittering armour of myth' Guardian \n\nAfter ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.\n\nAlongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death – and her own – while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra’s frenzies and the horrors to come.\n\nMeanwhile, awaiting the fleet’s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband’s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.\n\nAs one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.\n\n'The queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greece' National Geographic\n\n'Astonishingly fresh . . . Pat Barker is one of the finest novelists working today' Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025