Eden by Jim Crace
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Set in a walled garden, whose inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, eden opens with a summons. The gardeners of eden are called by their masters, the angels, to see a dead body. It is that of a bird, a creature who has strayed beyond the garden walls. Outside, where there is poverty and sick ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
25.00 NZD
Category: Myths and Legends - General
Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay o ...Show more
The Life Fantastic: Myth, History, Pop and Folklore in the Making of Western Culture by Noa Menhaim
50.00 NZD
Category: Myths and Legends - General
Explore the sprawling network of culture to discover the incredible ways in which ideas connect to shape the world we see today.These mind-blowing essays dig down to the roots of stories, myths and literary genres, travelling from art to politics to history to folklore, and from high to popular culture ...Show more
Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton
65.00 NZD
Category: Myths and Legends - General | Series: The\Complete Ser.
The most authoritative illustrated guide to the world of Greek mythology. From the first millennium BC onwards, Greek myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. Nowadays they can be found in film, television and computer games. This book combines a retelling ...Show more
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: Dark Star Trilogy Ser.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the lost boy's scent ...Show more
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Series: The Radiant Emperor Ser.
An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daug ...Show more
Greek Heroes: Top Ten Myths and Legends! by Marcia Williams
23.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
Discover the magical myths and legendary heroes of Ancient Greece with award-winning author-illustrator Marcia Williams. Travel back in time with goat-footed Pan to explore the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Meet the mighty gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus and some of the worlds best-loved her ...Show more
Medusa: the Girl behind the Myth by Jessie Burton
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra _________________If I told you that I'd killed a man with a glance, would you wait t ...Show more
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg
40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women and then won back again.Demonic temptresses from siren-mermaids to Lilith are well known today, and their mythology focuses around the seductive danger they pose to men. But the root of these figures can be traced back 4,000 years and in thei ...Show more
Stone Blind: Medusa's Story by Natalie Haynes
40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Natalie Haynes - the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships - brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before . . . 'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.' Medusa is the only mortal in a family ...Show more
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs
28.00 NZD
Category: Myths and Legends - General | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
A TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior, The Times'ravishingly lovely' Th ...Show more
No Season but the Summer by Matilda Leyser
48.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Spring and summer are my mother's time, autumn and winter are my husband's. What is left for me?Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years, sin ...Show more