Funeral Games
  • Published: 2 September 2002
  • ISBN: 9780375714191
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.00

Funeral Games

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After Alexander's death in 323 B.C .his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams.
  • Published: 2 September 2002
  • ISBN: 9780375714191
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.00
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About the author

Mary Renault

Mary Renault was educated at Clifton High School, Bristol and St Hugh's College, Oxford. Having completed nursing training in 1937, she then wrote her first novel Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written during off-time duty whilst serving in the war. In 1948 she went to live in South Africa but travelled widely. It was her trip to Greece and her visits to Corinth, Samos, Crete, Delos, Aegina and other islands, as well as to Athens, Sounion and Marathon, that resulted in her brilliant historical reconstructions of Ancient Greece. Mary Renault died in 1983.

Also by Mary Renault

The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea
The Charioteer
The Friendly Young Ladies
The Praise Singer
The Persian Boy
Fire From Heaven
The Bull From The Sea
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Praise for Funeral Games

“Renault’s best historical novel yet.... Every detail has solid historical testimony to support it.”–New York Review of Books