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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529061512 | ISBN 10: 1529061512
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023. In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. 'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood via ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529333695 | ISBN 10: 1529333695
‘Required reading for fans of Circe... a remarkable, thrilling debut‘ – Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue  Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.  For millennia, ... more
View book details£6.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526652065 | ISBN 10: 1526652064
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472273901 | ISBN 10: 1472273907
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS. As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and he ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526648174 | ISBN 10: 1526648172
OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERÂ Greece in the a ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241983201 | ISBN 10: 0241983207
"A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women."(Kate Atkinson) There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241257692 | ISBN 10: 0241257697
'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.' Â On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agam ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908524850 | ISBN 10: 1908524855
A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. The novel is based on the true story of a ten mile wall built in 2012 to put an end to illegal immigration flooding int ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780914671350 | ISBN 10: 0914671359
Something Will Happen, You’ll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomou’s luminous and poignant short stories center around laid- ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781844089604 | ISBN 10: 1844089606
In a masterful novel that vividly recreates the world of Ancient Greece, Mary Renault tells the story of Simonides, an ugly boy destined to create beauty through his extraordinary poetic talent. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821985 | ISBN 10: 1408821982
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed p ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906413668 | ISBN 10: 1906413665
Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus and plots with him to overthrow the dictator of thei ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780714531267 | ISBN 10: 071453126x
Translated from the Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. The second novel from the author of Four Walls, again stems from the author’s fascination with the way people act when confined or imprisoned in some way. A young and poverty-stri ... more
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