Some stories in Greek myths are about battles and heroism. Others are about love and the power of human connection. The story of Achilles and Briseis combines both. Achilles was known as the fiercest ...

Pat Barker's 2018 novel "The Silence of the Girls" marked both a late-career high and an intriguing change of direction for the Booker Prize-winning author. Instead of playing to her strengths and ...

Pat Barker’s 2018 novel “The Silence of the Girls” marked both a late-career high and an intriguing change of direction for the Booker Prize-winning author. Instead of playing to her strengths and ...

“It’s always hard on women, when a city falls.” Briseis, former princess of the Trojan city of Lyrnessus, has been Achilles’s slave for several months when someone she knew in her old life says these ...

"Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles ... How the epithets pile up," begins The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker's tart retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of ...

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 ...