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(Paperback)

By: John Spurling

ISBN: 9780715654569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Spurling - a lifelong classicist and historical novelist - spins five more myths for contemporary readers.


(Paperback)

By: John Spurling

ISBN: 9780715654583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Gripping, spirited and sometimes grisly, Spurling's fresh interpretations of these timeless tales bring both their heroes and their context vividly to life,reanimating Apollo, Herakles, Theseus, Perseus and Agamemnon.


(Hardback)

By: John Spurling

ISBN: 9780715653623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th April 2021
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Through the prisms of memory and art, award-winning author John Spurling reimagines the tumultuous period of the Glorious Revolution and brings to life historical figures Dryden,Vanbrugh, Swift, Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as never before.


(Paperback)

By: John Spurling

ISBN: 9780715654941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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A Walter Scott Prize-winning, riveting historical novel set in fourteenth-century China: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th anniversary