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Mary Renault

January 2019

  • Julia Ormond (far right) as Mrs Wilcox in the 2017 TV adaptation of Howards End.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Quakers in fiction

    From magnanimous Mrs Wilcox in Howards End to the bloodthirsty Captain Bildad in Moby-Dick, these portrayals complicate porridge-oat stereotypes

August 2017

  • TALES OF THE CITY (TVM) LAURA LINNEY, PAUL GROSS TLSO 002<br>BJKETX TALES OF THE CITY (TVM) LAURA LINNEY, PAUL GROSS TLSO 002

    Reading group
    Reading group: which book about gay life should we read in August?

    To mark the 50th anniversary of decriminalisation in the UK, please help choose a novel to mark the occasion. There are hundreds to choose from

August 2014

  • Tom Holland

    Reading group
    Mary Renault Reading group live webchat: Tom Holland

  • Alexander the Great

    Reading group
    Mary Renault's Alexander: history and fiction both

  • Mosaic of Alexander the Great

    Reading group
    Making Alexander great: creating a hero from zero

  • Alexander the Great

    Reading group
    Historical fiction can speak very clearly to the present and the past

July 2014

  • Alexander the Great

    Reading group
    August's Reading group: The Alexander trilogy by Mary Renault

    Landmarks of historical fiction, psychologically intense – and also very entertaining, Renault seems perfect for this month's choice

November 2013

  • Mary Renault

    Rereading
    Mary Renault's The Charioteer is an antidote to shame

  • Members of the British Expeditionary Force arrive home after being evacuated from Dunkirk

    The Charioteer by Mary Renault – review

May 2010

  • Alexander the Great

    Booker club
    Looking back at the Lost Booker: Mary Renault

    Sam Jordison: Fire From Heaven, a bracing retelling of how Alexander became Great is no masterpiece, but it's great entertainment

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