Mary Renault

A VIVID, SWEEPING SAGA OF QUEER LOVE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, FOR FANS OF SONG OF ACHILLES AND THE ODYSSEY 'Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART 'Arresting and beautiful and moving . . . decades ahead of its time' LONDON REVIEW OF...

The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas....

In a vivid depiction of Ancient Greece and its legendary heroes, The Mask of Apollo tells the story of Nikeratos, the gifted tragic actor at the centre of political and cultural activity in Athens....

After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle....

Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king....

Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India....

THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'Mary Renault is a shining light' HILARY MANTEL 'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent' MADELINE MILLER The...

THE MYTH OF THESEUS BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics' MADELINE...

Set in classical Greece, this is the riveting sequel to Mary Renault's The King Must Die. Slaying the minotaur was only the beginning. Theseus's legendary exploits continue in this magnificent tale of mythological adventure in classical Greece. Picking up where The King Must Die left off, this...

Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy....

Vivian, a student nurse, chose her profession as a challenge, both to her spirit and to her permanently exhausted body....

Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by....

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past....

Losing out on a promotion to her ex lover, Hilary Mansell, a talented doctor, moves to a rural hospital....

Set in sixth-century Greece at the time of the Tyrants, the Persian Wars, and a great flowering of the arts, this novel takes the form of Simonides' memoirs, written in retirement in Sicily....

This is the classic story of the young Theseus - Prince of Troizen, King of Eleusis and Athens, slayer...