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The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships and the Sunday... -
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War -... -
No Friend To This House by Natalie Haynes 9781529061550
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.57'Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer' - Radio TimesNo Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone... -
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes 9780063258402
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063258402Author Natalie HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes 9780063414006
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063414006Author Natalie HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71'Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to!' - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural... -
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063314672Author Natalie HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes 9780063139466
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063139466Author Natalie HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Stone Blind: longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 by Natalie Haynes 9781529061512
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Longlisted 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,... -
Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective by Dr Emily Hauser 9781350444362
Booksplease Price: £28.85From Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (2011) to Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (2024), there has been a huge rise in women's rewritings of ancient myths and texts in recent years. Women writers... -
Orphia And Eurydicius: A beautiful compelling story of love and creativity to inspire readers of Jennifer Saint, Madeline Miller and Natalie Haynes Elyse John 9781460763049
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The stunning, gender-flipped novel about love, creativity and the power of speaking out - perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker.'Poetic and evocative ... this story will thrill readers'... -
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Weather by Jenny Offill 9781783789337 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.52SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD 'Stunning' Maggie O'Farrell 'Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious' Max Porter 'This is so... -
The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney 9781780747668
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household... -
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Weather by Jenny Offill 9781783784776 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD 'Stunning' Maggie O'Farrell 'Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious' Max Porter 'This is so... -
Daughters of Sparta: A tale of secrets, betrayal and revenge from mythology's most vilified women by Claire Heywood
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.'Required reading for fans of Circe . . . a remarkable, thrilling debut' - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of... -
Morgan Is My Name: A Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction pick for 2023 by Sophie Keetch 9780861545216
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61An atmospheric, feminist retelling of the early life of famed villainess Morgan le Fay, set against the colourful chivalric backdrop of Arthurian legend. One of National Book Tokens' '23 Books to... -
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature Emily Wilson 9781805225850
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Brilliant ... enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie 'Joyful, illuminating and engaging ... required reading for anyone interested in translation' Madeline Miller How do we give... -
All Our Broken Idols by Paul M.M. Cooper 9781408879351
Booksplease Price: £10.35'Superbly told' The Times'Richly imagined' Sunday Times'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on SundayAssyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and... -
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg 9781803280288
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award 2023The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women - and then won back again.'Remarkable work... Extraordinary, meticulous detail'... -
Zeus Is A Dick by Susie Donkin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In the beginning, everything was fine.* And then along came Zeus. *more or lessAhh Greek myths. Those glorious tales of heroism, honour and... petty squabbles, soap-opera drama and more weird sex... -
The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic Mary Renault 9780349018553
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.98'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Fierce, complex... -
The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault 9780349018614
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction . . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Fierce, complex... -
Claudia: Daughter of Rome by Antoinette May
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Power. Passion. Betrayal.Claudia has a privileged life. Niece of Rome's favoured warrior, she lives in luxury, surrounded by her family and tended by slaves. Gifted with second sight, her dreams tell... -
Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World by Will Buckingham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.83What if meeting new people were a gift, not a burden? How might we transform our lives if we set aside our fear of outsiders? When Will Buckingham's partner died, the shock of his grief told... -
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Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory 9781471172892 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.41THE NEW SPELLBINDING NOVEL IN THE FAIRMILE SERIES FROM NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TIDELANDS and DARK TIDES, PHILIPPA GREGORYIn a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all . . . Ned... -
For the Winner by Emily Hauser
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.35Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had ever seen.One woman fought alongside them... -
For The Immortal by Emily Hauser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'Offers a fresh and feminist take' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of CirceThousands of years ago, two remarkable women found themselves swept up in one of the greatest legends of all . . . and... -
Greek Myths: A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of CirceIn this powerful new collection, Charlotte Higgins foregrounds Greek mythology's most enduring heroines. Here are the myths of Heracles and... -
House of Names by Colm Toibin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable' Mary Beard'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,... -
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The Little Book of Goddesses: An Empowering Introduction to Glorious Goddesses by Astrid Carvel 9781800071988 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £3.54Embrace the power of the divine in this beginner's guide to some of mythology's fiercest females and most legendary ladies Across thousands of years and countless civilizations, goddesses have been a... -
Babylonia Costanza Casati 9781405954655
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81PRE-ORDER THE CAPTIVATING TALE THAT CHARTS THE CONTROVERSIAL LIFE AND RISE TO POWER OF SEMIRAMIS, THE ONLY FEMALE RULER OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE, NOW IN PAPERBACK'A stirring, addictive and intoxicating... -
The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie (Collins Chillers) by Agatha Christie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. 'From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high... -
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories... -
I, Medusa: A new kind of villain origin story by Ayana Gray 9781785306860
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, re-imagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine... -
I, Medusa: A new kind of villain origin story Ayana Gray 9781785306822
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine... -
The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie (Collins Chillers) Agatha Christie 9780008644116
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.69From the Queen of Crime, all of her spookiest and most macabre stories collected in one volume, including her earliest published story, 'The Wife of the Kenite', which is exclusive to this collection... -
I, Medusa: A new kind of villain origin story by Ayana Gray 9781785306839
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.96From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine... -
The Voyage Home Pat Barker 9780241995679
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls'Brilliant, masterful . . . Barker strips away the glittering armour of myth' Guardian After ten blood-filled... -
A Tale of Four Dervishes by Mir Amman 9780140455182
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35In despair at having no son to succeed him, the King of Turkey leaves his palace to live in seclusion. Soon after, however, he encounters four wandering dervishes - three princes and a rich merchant... -
The Voyage Home Pat Barker 9780241568255
Booksplease Price: £19.77The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their...