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Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love f ...Show more
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, ...Show more
Kind are Her Answers: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying patient, a ...Show more
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more
The Bull from the Sea: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: Theseus Historic Novels | Reading Level: good
Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the appetite of the Labyrinth's monster - Theseus has returned home to find his father dead and himself the new king. But his adventures have only just begun: he still ...Show more
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Injured at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell, a young corporal, is recovering at a rural veterans' hospital. There he meets Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the men find solace in their covert friendship. Then Ralph Lanyon appears, a mentor from Laurie's schooldays. Through him, Laurie is ...Show more
The Friendly Young Ladies: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonor ...Show more
The North Face: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen ...Show more
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The second book in the Alexander The Great trilogy, now back in print after many years. The Persian Boy tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius o ...Show more
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