Cleopatra The Borough Press (393731003)

AN ENTHRALLING, GROUNDBREAKING REIMAGINING OF AN ICONIC QUEEN, FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR > 'Enchanting, smart, and subversive – El-Arifi’s masterpiece' R. F. Kuang > 'Lush world-building and lyrical prose burn brightly on every page' Jennifer > Saint > 'Addictive and entertaining' Stylist > 'An extraordinary achievement’ Samantha Shannon You know my name. But you do not know me. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children. How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived. From one of the most remarkable and acclaimed storytellers of her generation, the #1 bestselling author of Faebound and The Final Strife, this epic and groundbreaking new novel shows us Cleopatra on her own terms.