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Book Cover:  Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth Of Oedipus
By Salley Vickers
At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive.

Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across Hampstead Heath to relate the story of his life. As these two men sit together in front of a roaring fire, a remarkable tale unfolds.

The story of Oedipus is probably the most influential of all the Greek myths, having furnished Freud's theory of...

At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive.

Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across Hampstead Heath to relate the story of his life...

Published: 29/10/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351099
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Dream Angus: The Celtic God Of Dreams
By Smith Alexander McCall
Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams – you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty. Divine Angus is adored by all, but fated to love only the beautiful Caer. Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic Eros and his contemporary...
Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams – you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart...
Published: 26/11/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351143
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Lion's Honey
By David Grossman
'There are few other bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself...
'There are few other bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women...
Published: 05/06/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921145230
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Helmet of Horror: Text Myth Series
By Victor Pelevin
Labyrinth 1. An intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one s way without a clue; a maze

They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered into a dialogue which they cannot escape- a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror...

Labyrinth 1. An intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one s way without a clue; a maze

They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms...

Published: 05/06/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921145032
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Taniwharau:Guardians of the Land
By Warren Pohatu

Taniwha were seen as a good omen by local people, yet any stranger to the area saw them as dangerous creatues that would kill to protect their territory.

Taniwharau is a collection of stories about he mythical creatures and special guardians of Maori legend. Each story is accompanied by Warren Pohatu's dazzling imagery of the taniwha.

Taniwha were seen as a good omen by local people, yet any stranger to the area saw them as dangerous creatues that would kill to protect their territory.

Taniwharau is a collection of stories about he...

Published: 30/08/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781869780470
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover: The Death of King Arthur
By Peter Ackroyd

The timeless story of love, enchantment, adventure, heroism and betrayal, brought to new life for our times.

The timeless story of love, enchantment, adventure, heroism and betrayal, brought to new life for our times.

Published: 05/11/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846141935
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Excalibur
By Bernard Cornwell

ARTHUR'S FINAL TEST OF COURAGE IS UPON HIM . . .

Arthur has crushed Lancelot's rebellion, but at a cost.
Guinevere's betrayal has left him reeling, and his Saxon enemies seek to destroy him while he is weak. Chaos threatens to engulf Britain. Yet Arthur is a military genius and noble leader.


ARTHUR'S FINAL TEST OF COURAGE IS UPON HIM . . .

Arthur has crushed Lancelot's rebellion, but at a cost.
Guinevere's betrayal has left him reeling, and his Saxon enemies seek to destroy him while he is...


Published: 11/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241955697
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings
By - Holland Kevin Crossley

'Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life begins'

The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.

A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings, the Norse myths are as exciting to read as they are of...

'Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life begins'

The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.

A series of intertwined...

Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241953211
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Greek Myths: Vol. 1
By Robert Graves

'The Judges of the Dead showed Sisyphus a huge block of stone and ordered him to roll it up the brow of a hill and topple it down the further slope. He has never yet succeeded in doing so . . .'

'The Judges of the Dead showed Sisyphus a huge block of stone and ordered him to roll it up the brow of a hill and topple it down the further slope. He has never yet succeeded in doing so . . .'

Published: 04/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241952757
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Greek Myths Volume 2
By Robert Graves

'As soon as the Cyclops had fallen into a drunken sleep, the wine having been untempered with water, Odysseus and his remaining companions heated the stake in the embers of the fire, then drove it into the single eye and twisted it about . . . '

'As soon as the Cyclops had fallen into a drunken sleep, the wine having been untempered with water, Odysseus and his remaining companions heated the stake in the embers of the fire, then drove it into...

Published: 04/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241952764
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Maori Myth and Legend

The Maori have a rich and colourful tradition of myth and legend – many of their most important and popular tales are retold in this classic, bestselling book.

 

Written with the general reader in mind, the stories range from the creation of the world to the coming of life, death and knowledge. They incorporate the great god Tane, Maui who tamed the sun, the woman on the moon, monsters...

The Maori have a rich and colourful tradition of myth and legend – many of their most important and popular tales are retold in this classic, bestselling book.

 

Written with the general...

Published: 27/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143565475
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Last Demon: Mini Modern Classics
By Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer is best remembered for his short stories, which drew on traditions of folk tales and Yiddish culture to explore good and evil, passion and restraint, religious fervour and personal failings with wisdom, wit and humanity. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man to study the Torah, a frustrated demon and a writer trying to understand a...

Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer is best remembered for his short stories, which drew on traditions of folk tales and Yiddish culture to explore good and evil, passion and restraint, religious...

Published: 11/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141196237
RRP: $5.00
Book Cover: The Death of King Arthur
By Peter Ackroyd

'In the old wild days of the world there was a King of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power . . . '

Born with the help of Merlin's magic, blessed with the sword of Excalibur, Arthur becomes King of a troubled England, beginning a golden age of chivalry at the court of Camelot. But his reign is soon to be torn apart by violence, revenge and tragedy . . .

'In the old wild days of the world there was a King of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power . . . '

Born with the help of Merlin's magic, blessed with the sword...

Published: 29/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140455656
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 1
By Malcolm Lyons

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder – tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad...

Published: 12/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140449389
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Egil's Saga
By Leifur Eiricksson
Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from Norway...
Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful...
Published: 25/10/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140447705
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Sagas of Warrior-poets
By Leifur Eiricksson
All the Icelandic sagas portray a world well aware of the power of words: to praise, to blame, to curse and to taunt. Yet these five stories are unusual in putting a skald, or poet, centre stage and building the plot around his travels to seek fame, his doomed love for a married woman and his hostilities against her menfolk.
All the Icelandic sagas portray a world well aware of the power of words: to praise, to blame, to curse and to taunt. Yet these five stories are unusual in putting a skald, or poet, centre stage and building...
Published: 16/10/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140447712
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri
By Leifur Eiricksson
'Fate must find someone to speak through.
'Fate must find someone to speak through.
Published: 30/03/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140447729
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Saga of the Volsungs
By Jesse (trans) Byock
Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires runic knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet it is also set in a very human world, incorporating oral memories of the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun and other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of...
Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires runic knowledge from one...
Published: 02/08/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140447385
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Eyrbyggja Saga
By Hermann Palsson
Published: 23/03/1989
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445305
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Early Irish Myths & Sagas
By Jeffrey Gantz
These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the Iron Age Celts who flourished in Europe during the seven centuries before Christ. Building the economic, social and artistic foundations of the continent as they did, their myths and tales can be said to be the earliest voices from the dawn of Western civilisation. Later, with...
These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the Iron Age Celts who flourished in Europe during the seven centuries before Christ...
Published: 08/02/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140443974
RRP: $9.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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