Philip Womack

Daughters of Troy

Natalie Haynes is the latest to present the Trojan war from the women’s viewpoint, in a ground that’s as well-trampled as Troy’s battlefields

issue 11 May 2019

  • A Thousand Ships

    Natalie Haynes

    Pan Macmillan, pp. 347

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