Ancient Greece
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Fire Breather
This is the sixth volume in the series, giving us nine more tales from ancient Greece. First of all, we…
Penelope’s Daughter
Born soon after her father Odysseus sails for Troy, Xanthe is left behind to grow up on the rocky isle…
The Armour of Achilles
The Armour of Achilles is the third in what I assume is to be a quartet of books retelling the…
Still Waters
The head of the Krypteia (Spartan secret police) enlists the high priestess Iliona, ostensibly to bless a crossroads tavern and…
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Flying Horse
These little story books for ages 7-9 are very visual with bright colourful pictures and largish print. As the storyteller,…
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Silver Chariot
This is the seventh in the series, keeping the same format as before. The reader is told the story of…
Travelling Heroes, Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
Travelling Heroes takes the reader on a journey through the Mediterranean world of 8th-century BC following in the footsteps…
Alcestis
Those familiar with Greek mythology may recall Alcestis as the symbol of an ideal wife, a woman who so loved…
Ransom
Editors' choice
Ransom is a diamond of a novel, tiny but flawless, prose so pared away and carefully constructed that however many…
Birth of a Warrior
510 B.C. Ancient Sparta. At the end of the first book in the Spartan Warrior series, Lysander, the half-breed trainee…
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