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Ancient Greece brought us both the Olympic Games and myths that have been endlessly retold throughout the ages. So we thought we'd mark the 2012 Cultural Olympiad with a selection of fiction based on those great stories.
Find out what how the Minotaur ended up working as a chef in Carolina in The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, relive Theseus' fight to claim his inheritance in The King Must Die or see what happens when travellers from the future interfere in the siege of Troy in Ilium.
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Sjon; Victoria Cribb An ode to storytelling, The Whispering Muse evokes a time gone by with wit and verve, from the rogues and oddities among sea-faring types, to the long-lost romance and mystique... | Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother's body. Is... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £16.99 | £11.89 | 30% |  Despatched in 1 business day. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 6pm today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £16.99 | £14.44 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
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Sappho; Carol Ann Duffy; Aaron... 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine... | Donna Tartt Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a... |
Ayn Rand Tells the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. This title presents the mystery about the murder - and... | Neil Gaiman After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets... |
Homer; E.V. Rieu; Peter Jones; D.C.H.... Tells the story of darkest episode in "Trojan War". At its centre is Achilles, greatest warrior-champion of Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon... | Ali Smith Offers a re-mix of Ovid's joyful metamorphosis which is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. This title is about girls and boys, girls... |
Eudora Welty The Pulitzer Prize-winner's portrait of small-town life in Mississippi, told in short stories inspired by Greek myth. | James Joyce; Hans Walter Gabler Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, this book follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. After its first publication in... |
Roberto Calasso; Tim Parks Forming a link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's "Metamorphoses" directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's award-winning re-examination of fantastic fables and mysteries, which we may only think we... | John Fowles On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of... |
Margaret Atwood For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away... | Charles Frazier Over 1 million copies sold in the UK |
Marie Phillips Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of... | Frank Miller; Lynn Varley; Frank... 300. |