Ancient Greece
Wind from the Hospitable Sea (Fleeing Carthage)
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Greece, 562 BC. When wealthy foreigners come to Corinth for the Great Isthmian Games, 11-year-old Diossos tries to convince visitors to stay at his ...Read Review
The Heroines (UK) / Phaedra (US)
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In this retelling of Greek myths, Phaedra is the daughter of King Minos on the civilised island of Crete, where they are visited ...Read Review
The Shadow of Perseus
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The legend exalting the Greek hero, Perseus, is stripped away through the perspectives of three women in The Shadow of Perseus by Claire ...Read Review
Sparrows in the Wind
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A powerful retelling of the fall of Troy, Sparrows in the Wind brings readers into the world of Cassandra and her hope to ...Read Review
On Wine-Dark Seas: A Novel of Odysseus and His Fatherless Son Telemachus
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After 20 years of war and wanderings, Odysseus, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey, returns to Ithaca to face his greatest ...Read Review
God of Fire: Greek Myths A New Retelling
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This is a clear-eyed, unsentimental telling of the life of Hephaestus, the god of fire, who was born on Mount Olympus to Hera, ...Read Review
Clytemnestra
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Following in the recent trend of literary retellings of Greek myths by talented writers like Madeline Miller and Natalie Haynes, Costanza Casati’s ...Read Review
Phaedra (US) / The Heroines (UK)
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Phaedra has enjoyed a pampered life as the younger daughter of King Minos, despite the mocking whispers about her mother. Then Theseus comes ...Read Review
Stone Blind
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Most of us know something about the ancient Greek myth of Perseus slaying Medusa and making off with her head. The gaze of ...Read Review
Out of the Lion’s Maw (Fleeing Carthage)
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Here’s one of the greatest books you’ve never heard of, according to its translator—one of many readers across Europe. There, ...Read Review