Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wicked
The Wicked Witch of the West as a green-skinned girl from Munchkinland who becomes a student radical for the rights of talking Animals, long before a farmhouse falls from Kansas.
Beastly
Kyle Kingsbury, the arrogant, handsome son of a New York news anchor, humiliates a girl at school who turns out to be a witch, and she turns him into a beast with two years to find love.
The Once and Future King
The boy Arthur is tutored into kingship by a backwards-living Merlin and then must watch, across four linked books, the round table he built collapse into civil war.
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.
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.
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.