Cleopatra

An enthralling, groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen, from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author ´Enchanting, smart, and subversive – this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece´ R. F. Kuang ´Lush world-building and lyrical prose burn brightly on every page´ JENNIFER SAINT ´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.