VALENTINE CARTER

These Great Athenians

"These Great Athenians weaves together the voices of the many isolated women of Homer’s Odyssey. Penelope waits for her husband’s return as she makes a shroud that foretells her doom., Scylla once a beautiful nymph turned monster prowls the sea hungry for flesh, the witch Circe turns the men who invade her island into pigs, while the dead women of Hades come to terms with their own fates.

"With deft hands Carter playfully unravels Homer’s work to restitch the stories of these great Athenians and question how do those without a voice find freedom within the world of men.”

These Great Athenians is now available in paperback and for your chosen digital device, published by Mild, Threat & Peril. Order from your favourite bookshop in real life or online.

The hardback is now out of print but can still be hunted down online or borrowed from a friend (if you promise to give it back).

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About

I was born almost in the exact centre of England and as a direct result of that peculiar injustice I now live less than 100 metres from the sea.

I have wanted to be an author since I realised that an actual person wrote The BFG and that was an actual job that people could do.

It took me a long time to get to the point of having a novel published. I eventually found my way by doing an MA in Creative Writing, while also hanging out at The Poetry School. And working unglamorously hard.

The publishing industry has changed so much since the BFG came out, and the pace of that change has sped up in the last few years. I now try to work as independently as possible so I can do what I want in the hope that want makes me happy will resonate with other people too.

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