Featured Events in York in May, 2025 (May Updated)

Rosie Hewlett and Emily Hauser are coming to Waterstones York on 6th May, at 7pm. Read all about these amazing authors latest works while booking your ticket... Rosie Hewlett, Medea: From an unmissable new voice comes the powerful and epic story of mythology's darkest heroine. Shunned. Persecuted. Tormented. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous talent: witchcraft. Fierce. Powerful. Sorceress. But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece that her father fiercely protects, Medea sees her opportunity for escape. Her offer to help Jason overcome the trials set by her father sets in motion a journey that will test every ounce of her strength, magic and loyalty; a journey that will see her battle monsters, dethrone kings and fall in love. When faced with the ultimate betrayal, Medea is driven to an act of desperation so brutal it rips apart the lives of everyone involved. Dr Emily Hauser, Mythica: Did you love Madeline Miller’s Circe? Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls? Jennifer Saint's Elektra? Natalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships? But did you ever wonder who the real women behind the myths of the Trojan War were? Now award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends – and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Because, contrary to perceptions built up over three millennia, ancient history is not all about men – and it's not only men's stories that deserve to be told . . . Ticketing Information: General Admission: £6 Book and ticket (Medea): £14 Book and ticket (Mythica): £28 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Accessibility: - Two in store bathrooms (ground floor and first floor). - An elevator for accessing the first floor. - There is no on street parking, however cars and taxi's can drop off outside our shop from 6pm onwards. Information Source: Waterstones | eventbrite