ACHUKA Book of the Day 3 Aug 2026
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children’s UK
ISBN: 9780241791479
See also:
Under A Fire-Red Sky [ACHUKA Book of the Day 7 May 2025]
The Supreme Lie [ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Apr 2021]
First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, and a Puffin Classic since 1997, this retelling of The Odyssey is now available in the Puffin clothbound hardback series.
There are now over 40 titles in the clothbound Puffin Classics series. See them all here:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PCC/puffin-clothbound-classics?page=1
Geraldine McCaughrean is not on Instagram but her website has information about all her books.
https://www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk/portfolio
‘… but before I give Poseidon back his winds, why don’t I lend them to you, my dear Odysseus? I shall set just one free – the soft westerly wind that will carry you home… If you keep all the rest safely penned up in the bag, they can’t hold you back…’
Geraldine McCaughrean
— Mark Adair (@adair_mark) July 15, 2026
“We master words by meeting them not avoiding them” – Geraldine McCaughrean protesting against the censorship of language #CKG18
— ACHUKA (@achuka) June 18, 2018
“I return to The Odyssey time and again; I’ve told it for all ages of reader. It has everything..” Geraldine McCaughrean – Mount Stewart 17. pic.twitter.com/POWg4dUNQ1
— Mark Adair (@adair_mark) September 17, 2017
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