Books by Pat Barr

Pat Barr was born in Norwich and read English at Birmingham University and University College, London. She lived for three years in Japan where her interest in Isabella Bird was first kindled. Her first two books, The Coming of the Barbarians and The Deer Cry Pavilion have both been reissued by Faber Finds and are about western settlements in nineteenth-century Japan. To China with Love, The Memsahibs and Taming the Jungle followed A Curious Life for a Lady and she then turned her hand to fiction with the immensely successful Chinese Alice and Uncut Jade.