The Women of Troy opens with warriors crouched, silent, and waiting in the belly of the Trojan Horse, "packed tight as olives in a jar." The city is breached, and Pyrrhus, son of the dead hero ...

With apologies to booksellers everywhere, there are advantages to reading Pat Barker’s new novel on an e-reader. A retelling of the aftermath of the fall of Troy from a feminist perspective, The Women ...

Moving from Homer to Virgil, Pat Barker’s second feminist reboot of the classics is a stirring adventure set amid a misogynist dystopia Pat Barker’s previous novel, The Silence of the Girls, retold ...

With her reimagining of the aftermath of the Trojan War, Pat Barker has taken a 3,000 year-old story and made it feel new and immediate, writes Allan Massie Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...