When Thasos and his family are thrown out of their homeland and left to drift in the open sea, they are rescued by the Keftiu, a people with an unpleasant reputation for human sacrifice. However, to the family's surprise, their rescuers treat them kindly and take them as honoured guests to the peaceful, distant island of Kaftor, where they find a sophisticated and very different civilisation, ruled by women. Thasos and his mother happily settle into the Palace of Cnossos, but his two warrior brothers can't come to terms with life in a matriarchy; a society where war is unheard of and there...
When Thasos and his family are thrown out of their homeland and left to drift in the open sea, they are rescued by the Keftiu, a people with an unplea...
The 60s generation are in their sixties and still want to change the world. What have you done with your life?" This is a question that Cass is anxious to avoid when she attends an old school reunion. She is ashamed of her dull life: forty years of wasted talent and unhappy marriage to an abusive husband. Whatever happened to the promising musician who left school full of ambition in the 1960s? But then Cass finds out what happened to her best friend George on the last day of school, and this makes her angry enough to walk out on her husband and old life for ever. Re-united, Cass and her...
The 60s generation are in their sixties and still want to change the world. What have you done with your life?" This is a question that Cass is anxiou...
