An enthralling, groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen, from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author


'Enchanting, smart, and subversive – El-Arifi’s masterpiece' R. F. KUANG




'Lush world-building and lyrical prose burn brightly on every page' JENNIFER SAINT




'Addictive and entertaining' STYLIST




'An extraordinary achievement’ SAMANTHA SHANNON




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YOU KNOW MY NAME.




BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.



Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.


Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.


Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.


How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.


Death will silence me no longer.


This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.



From one of the most remarkable and acclaimed storytellers of her generation, the #1 bestselling author of FAEBOUND and THE FINAL STRIFE, this epic and groundbreaking new novel shows us Cleopatra on her own terms.