The Ghost Road
British novelist, born 1943. Won the Booker Prize in 1995.
The Ghost Road is a 1995 novel by Pat Barker. It won the Booker Prize in 1995.
In war novels
On 2 of the 21 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Pat Barker
- First published
- 1995
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 1995
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 1995
- Genre
- War novels, Psychological, Class and society
- Series
- Book 3 of The Regeneration trilogy
Is The Ghost Road worth reading?
2 of the 21 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 1995) | Winner | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 1995) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Ghost Road
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2008), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2008)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780141030951
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Ghost Road
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Ghost Road
If you liked The Ghost Road, try The Silence of the Girls, Catch-22 or Tree of Smoke.
