02345cam a2200313 4500 681697390 TxAuBib 240222s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063065390 0063065398 (OCoLC)17990 TxAuBib Haynes, Natalie, author. A Thousand Ships / Natalie Haynes. 1000 ships. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] HARDCOVER xiii, 348 pages ; 24 cm. ""Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 by Mantle, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.""--Title page verso. Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She appears on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter of documentaries and she is a reviewer of books, films, plays, television and art on Saturday Review and Front Row. She has judged the 2012 Orange Prize (now the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction) and is judging the 2013 Man Booker Prize. She judged Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel in 2010. Her first non-fiction book, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, was serialised by The Times in 2010. It has also been sold in the US, and translated into Greek, Spanish and Portuguese. Among many other favourable reviews, The Financial Times suggested you shouldn't read AC Grayling's The Good Book without reading The Ancient Guide first.Natalie was also a stand-up comedian for 12 years, and was the first woman ever to be nominated for the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She retired in 2009 to spend more time writing. She delivered the Voltaire Lecture at Conway Hall in March 2011, and is a judge on this years Booker prize panel. A retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil-keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles, and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict. Goddesses, Greek - AD FIC Mythology, Greek - AD FIC Trojan War - AD FIC Trojan War Women - AD FIC Fantasy fiction - AD FIC. Historical fiction. - AD FIC. War fiction - AD FIC.