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The Silent Patient
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The Song of Achilles: The 10th Anniversary edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller
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Lysistrata and Other Plays
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Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the Lost City of Rome in China
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A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SUMMER READING PICK IN THE GUARDIAN , SUNDAY TIMES , THE TIMES , DAILY MAIL , FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD 'The Greek island of...
One of the Girls
*The thrilling new novel from Lucy Clarke, THE SURF HOUSE, is available to buy now* 'Brimming with tension' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Talk about twists and turns' EMMA STONEX 'Utterly addictive ....
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
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Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all...
Mermaid Singing
In the 1950s Charmian Clift and her husband decided to escape the cold and routine of London for the warmth of the Greek island, Kalymnos. Far from the tourist trail,...
Olympia: The Birth of the Games
**1st Place, CIBA Chanticleer Awards 2021, Chaucer Award for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction** At Olympia, there is one amongst the Greeks who sees light where others only perceive darkness. One...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'History-writing at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to...
Chariot of Knowledge
Discover the lost history of the Ancient Olympic Games. In popular belief, the Olympic Games were primarily a Greek invention. Yet, this perception covers a secret history that connects the...
The Song of Achilles: Dyslexia Friendly Edition
Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. **OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A...
Lore Olympus: Volume One
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Alexander the Great: Murder in Babylon
In the second half of the fourth century BC, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great created the largest empire the world has ever known. On 11 June 323 BC, in...
Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs: The Political Hagiography of
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This is the 2nd volume in the series Studia Antiqua Australiensia, produced within the Ancient History Documentation Research Centre, Macquarie University. This collection of Latin texts, published in a new...
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
In Divine Might Natalie Haynes, author of the bestselling Pandora's Jar, returns to the world of Greek myth and this time she examines the role of the goddesses. We meet...
Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late
The Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity offers easily accessible introductions to the content and historical setting of the main writings of Greco-Roman paganism, early Judaism, and...
An Island Apart
It is the second largest Greek Island after Crete, but Evia - Euboea in Greek mythology, formerly Negropont to the British - remains almost unknown to tourists. Separated from the...
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it...
Right Thing, Right Now: Timeless Stoic values from the
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - HOW TO HARNESS THE LIFE-CHANGING POWER OF INTEGRITY'A message all of us need to hear' Arnold Schwarzenegger'This book is a gift to humanity'...
Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the...
Tyrant
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Sicily 412 BC: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis...
Mr Wilder and Me
A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors. A...
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things....
Scabby Queen
'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...
Factology: Greek Myths: Open Up a World of Information!
Go back to when the Greek Gods ruled the world, and the bravest heroes fought the deadliest monsters! Considered some of the oldest and most famous stories ever told, this...
Greece: A Literary Companion
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Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study
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Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and...
Chekhov Then and Now: The Reception of Chekhov in World Culture
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Since his death in 1904, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works have had an enormous resonance in different cultures and fields of artistic activity. The essays in this volume examine the various...
Through Greek Eyes
A collection of translated extracts from Greek writers from Homer to Pausanias. The extracts are organised into chapters with a brief linking narrative under the following headings - War, The...
North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots
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Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her...
The Half-God of Rainfall
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...
The Olympic Games: Athens 1896-Athens 2004
Whether you are a stadium spectator or an armchair enthusiast, keep up with the action and drama at the 2004 Games. Packed with breathtaking sports photography, commentary and trivia-busting lists...
Cats of the Greek Islands Daybook
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Cats are ubiquitous in Greece's Cycladic Islands. They are never allowed inside family homes, but are nonetheless welcomed as fellow inhabitants. They are fed, cared for, but never pampered or...
Scabby Queen
'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...
Wild Justice
This book, first full-length study of this often undervalued play, argues for a new appreciation of the power of its rhetoric, the subtlety of its characterization, and the beauty of...
Iris the Colorful: Volume 14
Iris has a rainbow of colorful experiences, from visiting the Underworld to conversing with her crush in this Goddess Girls adventure. Iris is the most colorful goddess girl at Mount...
Eureka!: The Invention of Science
That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of human thought. And answering the question of where and how...
Plato's Metaphysics of Education
A comprehensive presentation of the whole range of Plato's thought, this book focuses in particular on how Plato developed his metaphysics in order to support his deepest educational convictions.
Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to
In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece-a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the...
Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
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In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...
The Last Murder at the End of the World: The Number One Sunday Times
'Absolutely unforgettable' READER REVIEW 'Unlike anything I've ever read before' READER REVIEW THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER On a mysterious island where crime does not exist, a seemingly impossible...
Montenegro: A Modern History
In May 2006, following a closely and bitterly fought referendum, Montenegro finally regained the status of an independent nation that it had lost in 1918 - the most recent chapter...
The Monuments and the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
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Ill Met By Moonlight
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote,...