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Greek Myths

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781529111118

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 292g

  • RRP: £9.99

Greek Myths

  • A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili

RELEASED 07/07/2022

In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time.

Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus, the Trojan war, Thebes and Argos and Athens. They are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures and resourceful witches.

In this telling the female characters take centre stage as Athena, Helen, Circe, Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate imagined tapestries. In Charlotte Higgins's thrilling new interpretation of these ancient stories, their tales combine to form a dazzling, sweeping epic of storytelling.

With a series of original drawings by Chris Ofili.

'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of Circe

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781529111118

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 292g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Higgins is a wonderful scholar, and a great story teller. I've been loving these retellings, cleverly centered around the theme of myths told in tapestry.

    Madeline Miller, author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE

  • [Higgins] leads us through the labyrinth of interconnected stories in a startlingly fresh way. It throws radiant new light on their meanings... This excellent book should delight many generations of story lovers to come.

    Edith Hall, Guardian

  • [An] erudite and exhilarating collection... luminous, astute retellings.

    Hephzibah Anderson, Observer

  • [A] scholarly, capacious reimagining... Higgins makes you feel for these tormented, accursed mortals afresh.

    Claire Allfree, The Times

  • We are in the hands of a fine, fluent storyteller... Higgins, like the bards who first unspooled these tales, creates the illusion of spontaneity and handles suspense brilliantly... Chris Ofili's drawings complement the lyricism of the prose descriptions. Higgins depicts art mediating life - the reason, I think, that we read books... I loved this book.

    Sara Wheeler, Spectator

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About the Author

Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins's previous books include the acclaimed Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, which was shortlisted for awards including the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for non-fiction, and Red Thread, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Arnold Bennett Prize 2019. She is chief culture writer of the Guardian, a past winner of the Classical Association prize, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She lives in London.

Charlotte Higgins

Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili is a British artist. He lives and works in Trinidad.

Chris Ofili

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Charlotte Higgins on why Greek myths have so much to say to us now

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