Now in paperback, this award-winning, gripping historical novel plunges the reader into the ancient world of Aristotle and his pupil, later the virtual psychopath and world conqueror, Alexander the Great.
The author’s real skill is to make the characters and settings incredibly real and solid so you are literally transported back to Macedon 367BC. Readers of Kate Mosse and Philippa Gregory should definitely read the Opening Extract we think they will be hooked.
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword.
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword.
It is a training that has made the boy sadistic; fiercely brilliant, but unstable. A dangerous trait in a king fated to rule the vastest empire of the ancient world. Compelled to teach this startling, precocious, sometimes horrifying child, Aristotle soon realises that what the boy needs most to learn - thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields - is the lesson of the golden mean, the elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer in this age of fighting heroes...
'Gripping - powerful - Lyon has the gift of finding the pulse of the ancient world and bringing it back to glorious life.' The Times
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About Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon is the author of two short story collections, Oxygen, and The Best Thing for You. She lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children. The Golden Mean is her first novel.
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia.
The Golden Mean features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Golden Mean was written by Annabel Lyon and published by Atlantic Books
The Golden Mean has 284 pages
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