Warriors, witches, women - Kate Hodges

Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in thismodern retelling of the world's greatest legends.

From feminist fairies to bloodsuckingtemptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, these are women who go beyond long-haired, smiling stereotypes. Their stories are so powerful, so entrancing, that they have survived for millennia. Lovingly retoldand updated, Kate Hodges places eachheroine, rebel and provocateurfimly at the centre of their own narrative. Players include:

• Bewitching, banishedCirce, an introvert famed and feared for her transfigurative powers.
• The righteousFuries, defiantly unrepentant about their dedicationto justice.
• Fun-lovingAme-no-Uzumewhomakes quarrelling friends laugh andterrifies monsters by flashing at them.
• The fatefulMoraisisters who spin acomplex web of birth, life and death.

Find your tribe, fire your imaginationand be empowered by this essential anthology of notorious, demonisedand overlookedwomen.