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The Epically Awesome Odyssey, as told by Nanny Piggins

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Nanny Piggins returns with a porcine retelling of the biggest, the greatest, the most epic, the most Herculean of all the Greek myths – the Odyssey! An epically funny novel to horrify good children and delight the wicked ones, R.A. Spratt's take on the classic text... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Nanny Piggins returns with a porcine retelling of the biggest, the greatest, the most epic, the most Herculean of all the Greek myths – the Odyssey!

An epically funny novel to horrify good children and delight the wicked ones, R.A. Spratt's take on the classic text is as full of cake, mockery and mirth as you'd expect.

Here Odysseus is, of course, a beautiful female pig; the sea sirens tempt sailors with bowls of chocolate cake batter; and a forbidden sausage sizzle on the island of Thrinacia has most disastrous results...

The perfect book for before bed, avoiding homework, or for the times you've been told to reflect on your morals, and you need empirical evidence that grown-ups, and gods, all behave far worse than you ever have.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761622472

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 256

About the Author

R.A. Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire - a town immortalised by Harry Potter's deeply unpleasant relatives - until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia. The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertiliser to the growth of R.A.'s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed, and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today. Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of absurd and witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids and the Shockingly and Astonishingly Good Stories collections. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt, has had over 4 million downloads and connects R.A. with story-lovers across the globe. For more information, visit raspratt.com

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