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  • Published: 30 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448173938
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

The Golden Shadow




A story of the gods, from the creaters of The God Beneath the Sea.

Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods. He longed for a glimpse of the all-powerful deities of his stories, and listened eagerly to those who had experiences such encounters. And interwoven with his journey is the story of Heracles – a magnificent story with all the intense drama and high tragedy of the Greek Myths.

  • Published: 30 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448173938
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

About the authors

Leon Garfield

Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.

Edward Blishen

Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.

Praise for The Golden Shadow

The flexible, plangent prose . . . should wake the most sated reader

The Sunday Times