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Thema: Mythologie



Jon Ransom: The Whale Tattoo

Jon Ransom: The Whale Tattoo

GB 2023, 240 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Muswell Press
When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two years ago, it won't be easy, nor will returning to the river alongside the house where words ripple beneath the muddy ... Weiterlesen

Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

UK 2021, 414 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Mantle
In Mongol-occupied imperial China, a peasant girl refuses her fate of an early death. Stealing her dead brother's identity to survive, she rises from monk to soldier, then to rebel commander. Zhu's pursuing the destiny her brother somehow failed to attain: greatness. But all the while, she feels Heaven is watching. Can anyone fool Heaven indefinitely, escaping what's written in ... Weiterlesen

Melissa Bashardoust: Girl, Serpent, Thorn

Melissa Bashardoust: Girl, Serpent, Thorn

UK 2021, 323 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton
A fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse. There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Troy

Stephen Fry: Troy

UK 2021, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. Zeus, the king of the gods, triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Heroes. Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

Stephen Fry: Heroes. Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

UK 2018, 478 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling »Mythos,« Stephen Fry retells these dramatic, funny, tragic mostly queer and always timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Mythos. The Greek Myths Retold

Stephen Fry: Mythos. The Greek Myths Retold

UK 2018, 442 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche ... Weiterlesen

Amber Jacobs: Primal Touch

Amber Jacobs: Primal Touch

D 2017, 255 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Rumors of a rare, legendary, white tiger lure acclaimed wildlife photographer Ashley Richards deep into the Indian jungle. There, she crosses paths with a ruthless poacher and Leandra, a mysterious, feral woman with a dark past, who seems at one with the fierce felines she protects. In this charged, exotic, lesbian romance, Ashley is caught up in danger, a deadly ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ness: The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Patrick Ness: The Rest of Us Just Live Here

UK 2016, 352 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Walker
Award-winning writer and gay activist Patrick Ness's novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the »Chosen One«? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy

Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy

UK 2015, 164 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ligdus and Telethusa are having a child, but they cannot afford to have a girl. Ligdus informs Telethusa that she had better hope for a boy. While this decision makes them both sad, Telethusa »must obey«. She prays to Isis, but births a girl and names her Iphis, a name that »suited male or female - a neutral name«. She ... Weiterlesen

Douglas Clegg: Mordred, Bastard Son

Douglas Clegg: Mordred, Bastard Son

USA 2006, 260 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Douglas Clegg sets his rich imagination to the task of reinventing Arthurian legend. A young monk becomes enthralled by the story of a mysterious prisoner who begins to tell as he tends to his wounds. The prisoner is Mordred, bastard son of King Arthur Pendragon and his half sister Morgan Le Fay, who has been arrested for murder and treason. ... Weiterlesen

Devdutt Pattanaik: The Man Who Was a Woman

Devdutt Pattanaik: The Man Who Was a Woman

And Other Queer Tales of Hindu Lore. USA 2002, 164 pp., brochure, € 59.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
A god transforms into a nymph and enchants another god. A king becomes pregnant.A prince discovers on his wedding night that he is not a man. Another king has children who call him both father and mother. A hero turns into a eunuch and wears female apparel. A princess has to turn into a man before she can avenge her ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

USA 1988, 256 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

USA 1988, 373 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Set in 4th-century B.C. Greece, »The Mask of Apollo« is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

USA 1988, 388 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the man-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in »The King Must Die«. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength ... Weiterlesen

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