Mary Renault

Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, grows up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close....

In a vivid depiction of Ancient Greece and its legendary heroes, The Mask of Apollo tells the story of Nikeratos, the gifted tragic actor at the centre of political and cultural activity in Athens....

The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas....

Set in sixth-century Greece at the time of the Tyrants, the Persian Wars, and a great flowering of the arts, this novel takes the form of Simonides' memoirs, written in retirement in Sicily....

This second instalment in the story of the legendary hero begins with Theseus' triumphant return from Crete after slaying the Minotaur....

Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king....

Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India....

The epic of Thesus, the boy king of Eleusis, ritually preordained to die after one year of marriage to the sacred queen but who defies God's decree and claims his inheritance....

After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle....

Vivian, a student nurse, chose her profession as a challenge, both to her spirit and to her permanently exhausted body....

Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy....

Slaying the minotaur was only the beginning. Theseus's legendary exploits continue in this magnificent tale of mythological adventure in classical Greece. Picking up where The King Must Die left off, this stirring sequel recounts Theseus's triumphant return from Crete to become King of Athens.

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past....

Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by....

Losing out on a promotion to her ex lover, Hilary Mansell, a talented doctor, moves to a rural hospital....