A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

£8.99


Reserve a copy

×

Reserve a copy

Reserve a copy of A Thousand Ships for collection at Daunt Books Summertown. If you provide your email address below, we will contact you when this item is ready for collection. For delivery by post add the address to the order notes and we will be in touch to arrange payment.


    Fiction

    Paperback

    9781509836215

    Published by Orion Publishing Co

    Published July 2020

    Books > Fiction

    Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020

    ‘With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe.

    In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective.

    This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them.

    In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash..

    The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all. . .

    Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent.

    A Voice in the Night by Simon Mason |

    A Voice in the Night

    Simon Mason

    £16.99

    My Friends by Hisham Matar |

    My Friends

    Hisham Matar

    £18.99

    A Flat Place by Noreen Masud |

    A Flat Place

    Noreen Masud

    £10.99

    Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad |

    Enter Ghost

    Isabella Hammad

    £9.99

    James by Percival Everett |

    James

    Percival Everett

    £20

    Small Things Like These (gift edition) by Claire Keegan |

    Small Things Like These (gift edition)

    Claire Keegan

    £12.99