Laura Gill: 8 books

Book cover of Orestes: The Outcast
by Laura Gill
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

Seven years have passed since Orestes witnessed the savage murder of his father Agamemnon and fled for his life. Now, aged twenty, he is ready to reclaim his birthright as king of Mycenae, and avenge his father’s murder—by killing his own mother, a crime that will label him a matricide....
Book cover of Knossos
by Laura Gill
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

Knossos. The legendary Labyrinth. Go back millennia to a time when Knossos was the jewel of Crete, center of commerce and pilgrimage. Enter a world of priests and priestesses, bull dancers, scribes, architects, conquerors, schemers, and madmen who inspired the legends of the Labyrinth in these ten enthralling tales set in ancient Crete.
Book cover of Helen's Daughter
by Laura Gill
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011

When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen of Sparta, she left behind a nine-year-old daughter, Hermione. And when Helen's husband Menelaus set out to recover her, Hermione was sent to her relatives at Mycenae to wait out the war.Now, years later, the Trojan War is over. The adult Hermione...
Book cover of Orestes: The Young Lion
by Laura Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011

The Trojan War leaves young Orestes a spiritual orphan. Agamemnon, his father, has been away fighting for nine years. Clytaemnestra, his mother, never wanted him. Now, crazed with grief over the murder of her daughter Iphigenia, she takes as a lover a rival kinsman whose presence threatens to tear...
Book cover of Orestes: The Warrior
by Laura Gill
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012

Orestes, son of Agamemnon, now rules as king of Mycenae. Claiming his beloved Hermione as his queen, he sets out to reclaim the vassal states once held by Agamemnon. However, his ambitions stir conflict with the neighboring Argives, whose cunning and unscrupulous king, Cylarabes, is determined to discredit and defeat his Mycenaean rival at all costs.
Book cover of Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14
by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading, both for learning and for pleasure. Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 is a practical, friendly book which uses the ‘whoosh’ to cover some of our best known classic...
Book cover of Mediated Intimacy

Mediated Intimacy

Sex Advice in Media Culture

by Meg-John Barker, Rosalind Gill, Laura Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and...
Book cover of The Essential Charles Dickens School Resource

The Essential Charles Dickens School Resource

Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Classic Texts Ages 7-14

by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017

Charles Dickens is arguably the greatest storyteller in English Literature and his novels have been loved and respected for nearly two hundred years. As accurate reflections of Victorian society they are unparalleled. Vivid characters and realistic settings are created in the mind of the reader, all laced with Dickens inimitable humour, wit and lac
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