Natalie Haynes Knihy

Žiadna vojna nie je len mužskou záležitosťou. Dotýka sa aj žien. A nie iba jednej či dvoch. A trójska vojna je príbehom mnohých žien… Keď sa Kreusa v jednu noc prebudí, zistí, že jej milované mesto pohltili plamene. Desať rokov zdanlivo nekonečných bojov medzi Grékmi a Trójanmi sa skončilo. Trója padla. Tento príbeh však nie je len o jednej žene, ale o všetkých ženách, ktorých život, lásku a súperenie navždy poznačila táto dlhá a tragická vojna. Dotýka sa všetkých trójskych žien, ktorých osudy teraz držia v rukách Gréci, nevynímajúc princeznú Amazoniek bojujúcu za svoje družky po boku Achilla, či grécku Penelopu, ktorá čaká na Odyseov návrat, až po tri bohyne, ktorých spor to všetko spustil – tieto príbehy konečne vystupujú z tieňa slávnych mužských hrdinov. Natalie Haynesová vo svojom románe Tisíc lodí prináša nový pohľad na jeden z najväčších epických príbehov, kde sa dievčatá, ženy a bohyne stávajú ústrednými postavami.

Smrteľníci nás považujú za príšery, lebo sme mocné a vieme lietať. Volajú nás tak, pretože sa nás boja. Medúza sa narodila do božskej rodiny, no na rozdiel od svojich sestier je smrteľná. Zakrátko si uvedomí, že ako jediná z nich starne, mení sa a cítiť slabosť. Vedomie, že sa raz pominie, dodáva jej konaniu naliehavosť, ktorú jej príbuzní nikdy neokúsia. Keď Poseidón, vládca morí, znesvätí Aténin chrám, urazená bohyňa sa pomstí nevinnej obeti a naveky zmení Medúzin život. Úbohá dievčina sa desí vlastného odrazu – namiesto vlasov sa jej na hlave zvíjajú hady a jediným pohľadom mení všetko živé na kameň. Nemôže viac hľadieť na svojich milovaných bez toho, aby ich zahubila, tak sa dobrovoľne odsúdi na život v tieňoch a samote, aby zahatala cestu svojmu vražednému hnevu. Všetko sa však zmení, keď sa Perseus vydá na osudovú výpravu s cieľom získať hlavu Gorgony... Toto je príbeh mladej ženy, z ktorej sa stala príšera – až na to, že ňou v skutočnosti nikdy nebola.

Legendární slečna Marplová se opět vydává po stopách zločinu – tentokrát ve dvanácti nových příbězích! Karen McManus, Ruth Ware, Val McDermid, Lucy Foley a další autorky napínavých knih se spojily, a tak vznikl tento unikátní soubor. Slavná vyšetřovatelka s neobyčejnou znalostí lidské povahy vyráží do všemožných koutů světa, aby znovu předvedla svou bystrost a důvtip při řešení těch nejzapeklitějších záhad. Tucet povídek dokonale respektuje styl klasické krimi, zároveň však každá z nich osobitým, originálním způsobem dokazuje, proč zůstává slečna Marplová dodnes jednou z nejoblíbenějších detektivních postav na světě.

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women's stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora -- the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world -- was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate. Now, in Pandora's Jar, Natalie Haynes -- broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist -- redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope

In the many retellings of the Greek myths, the focus is generally on gods and heroes, but Natalie Haynes refocuses our gaze on the remarkable women at the centre of these ancient stories.

A dark psychological page-turner about an inexperienced teacher who builds a powerful - and ultimately dangerous - connection with her students. From the bestselling author of Stone Blind and A Thousand Ships. The Secret History meets Notes on a Scandal.

From Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships, comes The Children of Jocasta, a retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked. My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it.'Haynes balances a fresh take on the material . . . giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe.

The scintillating follow-up to &i;>Pandoras Jar&/i> from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.

Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta and Alexandria. This book shows how we are living very much like people did 2,000 or more years ago.

We meet Hera, who, whilst most often known for enacting vicious, creative revenge on the women – mortal or otherwise – who catch the wandering eye of her husband Zeus, turns out not to be such a villain after all. We meet Demeter, a mother who will go to any lengths, no matter the cost, to retrieve her daughter Persephone from Hades’ clutches. We’ll be introduced to The Furies, three women who will literally go to the ends of the earth to enact bloody vengeance but who, surprisingly, are the goddesses who can teach us the most about the way we live now. Examining the role of these goddesses and more, Divine Might will change everything you thought you knew about our most ancient stories. Full of fire, fury and devotion, Natalie Haynes brings the divine women of Olympia kicking and screaming into the modern age.