La historia de Alejandro Magno contada por Bagoas, su fiel criado.Basada en una figura histórica, El muchacho persa cuenta los últimos años de vida de Alejandro Magno a través de los ojos del que fuera...

En torno a la figura de Alejandro Magno se ha ido tejiendo a través de los siglos una capa casi impenetrable de fábula, historia, tradición y emoción. En esta biografía, Mary Renault - mundialmente famosa...

Fundador de la dinastía ateniense, rey de Atenas, reformador religioso, gran navegante y hasta pirata, a Teseo también se le atribuye, tras haber conquistado una buena parte del Ática, el sinecismo ateniense:...

El momento de máximo esplendor de Atenas, el siglo de Pericles, empieza a desvanecerse, y Alexias, prototipo del joven de su tiempo, se convierte en testigo de unos acontecimientos que desembocarán en...

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which...

Losing out on a promotion to her ex lover, Hilary Mansell, a talented doctor, moves to a rural hospital. She is bored and unchallenged, but the routine and long hours dull her disappointment. When Julian...

'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us...

Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a...

'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. Her characters live vividly both in their own time,...

'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS'The Alexandriad is one of the twentieth century's...

'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us...

'All my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. Her Theseus novels are perhaps the most exciting of her Greek fictions, and The...

Vivian, a student nurse, chose her profession as a challenge, both to her spirit and to her permanently exhausted body; Mic immerses himself in his work at the hospital to ward off the emotional wounds...

'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. Her characters live vividly both in their own time,...

'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those...

'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERSIn the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault...

Nous sommes à la fin du Ve siècle avant J.-C. ; Athènes et Sparte, les deux grandes cités hellènes, se lancent dans une guerre qui se terminera vingt ans plus tard par la ruine d’Athènes et le déclin...

'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Fierce, complex and...

Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an...