Books like Circe
Exiled to the island of Aiaia for witchcraft, the scorned daughter of the sun god Helios spends centuries honing her power, entangled with gods and with mortal visitors such as Odysseus.
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The Witch's Heart
Angrboda, a witch burned by Odin and left for dead, retreats to a forest at the edge of the worlds, where the trickster Loki finds her and the children they have together become central to the end of everything.
The Song of Achilles
An exiled prince grows up beside Achilles, becomes his companion and lover, and follows him to Troy, where prophecy and pride carry them towards the war's end.
A Thousand Ships
The Trojan War told by its women, from the Trojan queens waiting on the shore to be taken as slaves to Penelope writing increasingly sharp letters to her absent husband.
The Penelopiad
Speaking from the underworld, Penelope gives her own account of waiting twenty years for Odysseus, and the chorus of twelve maids he hanged on his return has its say too.
Return to Ithaca
Odysseus, worn out by twenty years of war and wandering, washes up among the Phaeacians and makes his way home to Ithaca, where suitors are eating through his house.
The Mists of Avalon
The Arthur cycle retold from Morgan le Fay and the women of Avalon, as Christianity closes in on the old Britain of the Goddess and the mists behind the barge to the island begin to thin.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Tracker, a mercenary famous for his nose, is hired to find a missing boy and joins a band of strange companions crossing an African-inspired world of rival kingdoms, witches and monsters, telling the story later to an inquisitor.
The Silence of the Girls
Briseis, queen of a small kingdom near Troy, sees her family killed when Achilles sacks her city, and is given to him as a prize of war in the Greek camp.
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman retells the great Norse myths, from the creation of the world to Ragnarök, with Odin, Thor and Loki at their scheming, quarrelling best.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
María in Spain in 1532, Charlotte in London in 1827 and Alice in Boston in 2019 are each offered a different kind of life by a stranger, and their stories of hunger, love and rage wind together across five centuries.
This Immortal
Conrad Nomikos, an ageless Greek with a mysterious past, is assigned to guide a blue-skinned alien on a tour of an Earth left in ruins by nuclear war and largely bought up by aliens.
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Xingyin, the secret daughter of the moon goddess Chang'e, flees her home to escape the Celestial Emperor's wrath and fights her way up through his court as an archer, hoping to win her mother's freedom.