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Natalie Louise Haynes (born 1974) is an English writer, broadcaster, classicist, and comedian. Early life Haynes was born in Birmingham, where she attended King Edward VI High School for Girls. She grew up in Bournville. She read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was a member of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club. Career Radio Haynes has appeared on BBC Radio 4 as a panellist on Wordaholics, We've Been Here Before, Banter, Quote... Unquote, Personality Test and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, and she has been an announcer on BBC Radio 4 Extra. She has contributed to the BBC 7 comedy review show Serious About Comedy and she reviews films for Front Row. Her stand-up has featured in Front Row and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4 and Spanking New on BBC 7. She appeared in BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Fringe in 2004 and 2005. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live's Anita Anand Show, and MacAulay and Co. on BBC Scotland. In 2005 and 2006, Haynes wrote and presented documentaries on comic writers, for BBC Radio 4. Her subjects included the modern female writers Jessica Mitford and Dorothy Parker, and the classical male writers Aristophanes, Juvenal and Martial. She appears as a critic on Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4. On 4 February 2013, she was the star of the BBC Radio 4 programme With Great Pleasure. Her guests included the novelist Julian Barnes, who read from one of his own books. BBC Radio 4 broadcast Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics, in which, aided by experts, she makes serious and amusing remarks about historical and mythological figures from ancient Greece and Rome, from Petronius to Sappho. There have been nine series, each containing four episodes of around half an hour. Series five, which was recorded from October to November 2019, and broadcast on Radio 4 from 23 December 2019, included programmes on Aristotle, Claudia Severa, Suetonius, and Homer's Iliad. Haynes's guests included Professor Edith Hall and Anita Anand. Series six was broadcast from 17 May 2020, and included episodes about "Helen of Troy" and "Penthesilea, Amazon Warrior Queen", recorded with Professor Edith Hall. Series seven was broadcast from 8 May 2021 to 8 June 2021 and included programmes on Medusa, Pandora, Jocasta, and Clytemnestra. Television Haynes was a regular panellist on BBC's The Review Show and was the most-booked guest on More4's The Last Word. She appeared as a panellist on BBC 4's The Book Quiz, and on its Poetry Special alongside Andrew Motion and George Szirtes. She also appeared on Backlash, a BBC2 documentary on voluntary childlessness, wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television Best of the Fest in August 2005. Haynes has been a panellist on BBC Four's quiz show Mindgames, appeared on Must Try Harder on BBC Two in 2006 and was the art and literature expert on the BBC Two quiz show Knowitalls. In August 2007, when she appeared on an episode of The Book Quiz hosted by David Baddiel, she admitted researching a book on Wikipedia in order to bluff having read it. In April 2008, Haynes was a member of the stand-up comedians' team on University Challenge: The Professionals. Her team lost to the Ministry of Justice, 100 points to 215. In November 2009, she appeared on BBC One's Question Time. In February 2022, Haynes was announced as the new presenter of the online revival of Time Team, alongside Gus Casely-Hayford. Journalism Haynes has been a guest contributor for The Times since October 2006, and a regular contributor to New Humanist. She has also written for The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The Big Issue, Loaded and The Independent. Live shows Haynes has toured (including Dublin, Berlin to Manhattan) and has performed five Edinburgh Fringe sell-out runs and national tours. She was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the 2002 Perrier Comedy Awards, the first woman to receive this nomination. 2002 Six Degrees of Desolation (nominated for Perrier Award Best Newcomer) 2003 Troubled Enough 2004 Still Not Sorry 2005 Run Or Die 2006 Watching the Detectives Haynes is the only comedian to have appeared at every Newbury Comedy Festival. Writing Haynes contributed an essay to Serenity Found, a book about Joss Whedon's television show Firefly, edited by Jane Espenson, which was published in 2007 by BenBella Books. Her entries on subjects from Agatha Christie to E.F. Benson can be found in Cassell's Little Black Book of Books, published in 2007. Her first children's novel, The Great Escape, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. It won a PETA Proggy award, for best animal-friendly children's book, in 2008. Haynes has written three non-fiction books. The Ancient Guide To Modern Life, on the subject of how living well in the present requires some recourse to the ancient world, was published by Profile Books in November 2010. Her second non-fiction book, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, was published by Picador in October 2020, and was a New York Times bestseller. Margaret Atwood called it "funny" and "sharp". Haynes' first novel, Amber Fury (titled The Furies in the U.S.), was published in 2014. It was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award. Her second novel, Children of Jocasta, a retelling of Antigone and Oedipus Rex, was published in 2017. Haynes' third novel, A Thousand Ships (relating to the Trojan War), was published by Pan Macmillan on 4 May 2019. She discussed it on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that month. A Thousand Ships was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020. Haynes' fourth novel, Stone Blind, a retelling of the myth of Medusa, was published by Pan Macmillan on 15th September 2022, and an abridged version was read on BBC Radio 4 by Susannah Fielding. In March 2024 the German edition of the title was shortlisted for the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards which will be awarded at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. Haynes was awarded the Classical Association Prize in 2015. Works The Great Escape (Simon & Schuster, 2007) ISBN 978-1-41692-605-4 The Ancient Guide to Modern Life (Profile Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1-84765-293-5 The Amber Fury (Corvus, 2014) ISBN 978-1-78239-275-0 The Children of Jocasta (Pan Macmillan, 2017) ISBN 978-1-5098-3615-4 A Thousand Ships (Pan Macmillan, 2019) ISBN 978-1-5098-3619-2 Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Pan Macmillan, 2020) ISBN 978-1-5098-7311-1 Stone Blind: Medusa's Story (Pan Macmillan, September 2022) ISBN 978-1-5290-6147-5 Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth (Pan Macmillan, October 2023) ISBN 978-1-5290-8948-6 References External links Official website. Discover the Natalie Haynes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Natalie Haynes books.
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Soldiers and Lovers
Leslie ThomasIn a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales an...
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The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes“Reinterprets two of Sophocles’ Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.” The New Yorker“A passionate and gripping account of a...
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The One I Saw
Patricia Ferguson'I never told anyone about my ghost, the one I saw . . .'In this short, spinetingling story, author of The Midwife's Daughter and Aren't We Sisters? Patricia Ferguson tells the tal...
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Zeus Is A Dick
Susie DonkinIn the beginning, everything was fine. And then along came Zeus. more or lessAhh Greek myths. Those glorious tales of heroism, honour and... petty squabbles, soapopera drama and mo...
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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse
Christopher ChildersNewly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the earlyagricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise po...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Ronald Wilks, Anthony Briggs & David McDuffThis edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume ar...
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Hms Inflexible
A E Langsford1945. The battle against Japan in the Pacific is reaching its climax. One way or another, Inflexible will be Captain Thurston's last command of the war.Captain Thurston VC is a nav...
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Out of the Dark
Robert W. ChambersFor the first time in one volume, the best stories of one of America’s most popular classic authors of the supernatural.Robert William Chambers’ The King in Yellow (1895) has long ...
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A Tale of Four Dervishes
Mir Amman & Mohammed ZakirIn despair at having no son to succeed him, the King of Turkey leaves his palace to live in seclusion. Soon after, however, he encounters four wandering dervishes three princes an...
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The Little Book of Goddesses
Astrid CarvelEmbrace the power of the divine in this beginner’s guide to some of mythology’s fiercest females and most legendary ladiesAcross thousands of years and countless civilizations, god...
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Ghosts in the House
A. C. Benson & R. H. BensonA collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson.The Benson brothers – Arthur Christopher, Edward Frederic and...
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Vainglory
Ronald FirbankThe fairly young and entirely alive Mrs Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stainedglass window erected in her honour in an English cathedral. From this premise, t...
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The Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie
M Sivadasa & Chandra RajanHalf mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with ...
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The Tiled House
J.S. Le FanuThe very best of Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction, including such classics as: ‘Schalken the Painter’, ‘Squire Toby's Will’, ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’, ‘The Familiar’, ‘Green Tea’, ‘Mad...
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Silas Marner
George Eliot & David CarrollWrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious h...
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Deerbrook
Harriet MartineauWhen the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr Grey and his wife, speculation is rife that one of them might marry ...
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Medea
Eilish QuinDiscover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Ele...
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Eve Bites Back
Anna BeerMargery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen.Warned not to write – and certainly not to bite – these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into hi...
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Child of All Nations
Irmgard KeunKully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you...
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Dover Beach
Leslie ThomasSummer 1940. The evacuation of Dunkirk proves that the British can rise to a challenge, even against seemingly insurmountable odds. But now the soldiers walk the streets of Dover, ...
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The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens & Mark Wormald'One of my life's greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers I can't go back and read it for the first time' Fernando PessoaFew first novels have created as much p...
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Eden Abandoned
Shinie Antony'Women are born in survival mode. Their job, they are told, is to love. But what is this love they neither know nor see – this illiquid, noreturnoninvestment, invisible land they m...
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The Invisible Eye
Emile Erckmann & Louis Alexandre ChatrianA collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales – Erckmann–Chatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many o...
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Hindu Myths
Wendy DonigerRecorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventyfive semin...