Ancient Greece
Circe
Editors' choice
Madeline Miller returns to the Homeric epics for the inspiration for her second novel, Circe. While the first, The Song…
The Athenian Women
Editors' choice
Alessandro Barbero’s The Athenian Women is a complex tale highlighting the class struggles of women subjugated under a patriarchal system…
Secret of the Oracle: An Ancient Greek Mystery
Classical Greece, 510-323 BC. In Saviour Pirotta’s second Greek Mystery, the Mystery Solvers, Nico, scribe to the poet and playwright…
The Macedonian
In the north of Greece in the ancient kingdom of Macedon, a boy is born to a mother who despises…
Clytemnestra: The Mother’s Blade
Set firmly in the Bronze Age, this novel once again gives us the eternally re-fought conflict that ensued, when the…
Death on Delos
If a murder investigation could be fun, it would look like Death on Delos. The priestess, Diotima, and her husband,…
Shadow of Athena
In 7th century B.C.E. Greece, the Fall of Troy is still fresh enough to demand sacrifice. The homeland of the…
The Road to Alexander
The story starts about 300years in the future when a young journalist wins a prize to be sent back in…
Bright Air Black
The familiar Greek myth of Jason and Medea is retold in Bright Air Black. In brilliant, evocative prose, the world…
For the Winner
Myths are stories that are told and re-told over centuries. Each generation takes the same basic tale but turns it…
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