Ella Berthoud brings I’m bringing my illuminating Under the Covers series of talks to The London Library for the first time, with acclaimed novelist, classicist, broadcaster and comedian, Natalie Haynes.
Natalie Haynes is, as the Washington Post put it, ‘a rock star mythologist’. Her books delve into antiquity, often giving voice to the women who inhabit the dark, patriarchal world of classical mythology. Her latest novel is Stone Blind, the story of Medusa, sole mortal in a family of Gorgons whose destiny is changed forever when the gods condemn her to a life of shadow, her hair transformed into writhing snakes, her every glance a force for destruction.
Putting herself on the metaphorical couch, we’ll be talking about the books that have made and inspired her throughout her life and, crucially, her bibliotherapeutic analysis and prescription.
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, and A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandora’s Jar, was a New York Times Bestseller in 2022.