Pat Barker

MARK RAWLINSON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Leicester University, UK. He works on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, especially poetry and narrative fiction, with special interests in the literature of war. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (Clarendon Press, 2000), 'the most authoritative study so far of the culture of the second world war' (THES).

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I: INTRODUCTIONTimelineIntroductionPART II: MAJOR WORKSUnion Street andBlow Your House DownLiza's England and The Man Who Wasn't ThereRegeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost RoadDouble Vision and Life ClassPART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTAuthor InterviewCritical ReceptionBibliographyIndex.

'An incisive, original contribution to the study of one of the most important contemporary British novelists' - Dr. John Brannigan, University College Dublin, Ireland