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'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of Circe In this
powerful new collection, Charlotte Higgins foregrounds Greek
mythology's most enduring heroines. 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.
'Visionary.' Bettany Hughes 'Tremendous.' Ben Okri 'Luminous.' Rose
Tremain Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked. Ancient
Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the
Great House's incestuous society. But the Liar speaks a truth that
transforms everything . A primitive matriarchal society. While
mothers raise children in the bucolic Place of Women, Chimp is
tormented by the Leopard Men in their brutal hunts, until he gains
new wisdom . Imperial Rome. In an era of invention and exploration,
the emperor realises he loves his illegitimate grandson more than
his own loutish heir .
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Camulodunum (Paperback)
Michelle Cotton, Charlotte Higgins, Louisa Buck
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R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION** Take a journey around the
archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the
award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the
encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman
Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint
as province of Rome - from the medieval mythographer-historian
Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does
Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains
rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in
story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales
by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for
herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not
particularly reliable, VW camper van. Via accounts of some of
Britain's most intriguing, and often unjustly overlooked ancient
monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British
landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as
indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined, and wrote, these
strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world,
into existence. 'Mesmerising... Sophisticated and passionate'
Guardian '[A] lyrical, haunting look at Roman Britain and its echo
in our culture' Sunday Times
'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali Smith A
thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art,
literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the
hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the
labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most
intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the
labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building
created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the
foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte
Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted Under Another
Sky, tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems
of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an
ingenious edifice of her own. Along the way, she traces the
labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot
and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Velazquez to
Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks
what it is to be lost, what it is to find one's way, and what it is
to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. Red
Thread is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the
byways of the author's imagination - one that leads the reader on a
strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and
surprising pleasures.
A brilliantly researched and gripping history of the BBC, from its
origins to the present day. 'The book could scarcely be better or
better timed. It is elegantly written, closely argued, balanced,
pulls no punches.' MELVYN BRAGG, GUARDIAN Charlotte Higgins, the
Guardian's chief culture writer, steps behind the polished doors of
Broadcasting House and investigates the BBC. Based on her hugely
popular essay series, this personal journey answers the questions
that rage around this vulnerable, maddening and uniquely British
institution. Questions such as: what does the BBC mean to us now?
What are the threats to its continued existence? Is it worth
fighting for? Higgins traces its origins, celebrating the early
pioneering spirit and unearthing forgotten characters whose imprint
can still be seen on the BBC today. She explores how it forged
ideas of Britishness both at home and abroad. She shows how
controversy is in its DNA and brings us right up to date through
interviews with grandees and loyalists, embattled press officers
and high profile dissenters, and she sheds new light on recent
feuds and scandals. This is a deeply researched, lyrically written,
intriguing portrait of an institution at the heart of Britain.
'Engrossing.' EVENING STANDARD 'Beautifully written'. THE SPECTATOR
'Exactly observed and beautifully written.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A
loving portrait . . . never creaks with excess.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A
pleasingly intricate jigsaw of biography, politics, and opinion.'
INDEPENDENT 'Excellent and enthralling . . . informative,
educational and entertaining.' GUARDIAN
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