Funeral Games Novel Alexander Great Virago Modern

The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renaults finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat SARAH WATERSThe heavens say it begins with the death of the King . . . Alexander the Great, conqueror of an empire stretching from Greece to Egypt to India, is dead at the age of thirtythree. His only direct heirs are two unborn sons, and every longsimmering faction is poised to explode into the vacuum of power. As his wives, distant relative and generals vie for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army, with fatal results, Alexanders fragile empire is torn to pieces but his legend will endure across worlds he had only imagined. In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly reimagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Brilliant and brutal... she has retained her unnerving genius for making the remote past live without diminishing its remoteness and alien glitter SUNDAY TIMESDiscerning, surefooted, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us HILARY MANTELThe Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the twentieth century ANTONIA SENIOR | Mary Renault Funeral Games : A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern