January 9, 2012
Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz – The plot to return the Elgin Marbles
Another review of the new children’s book by Anthony Horowitz, about a plot to return the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum to Athens.
From:
Guardian
Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz – review
Sunday 8 May 2011 11.00 BST
‘The detail is amazing, he drags you straight into the room’
The finale of the enthralling Alex Rider series, comes with a bang, and this time, the majority of the book is from the bad guy’s point of view. Alex returns this time with SCORPIA, the evil criminal organisation, on his tail. Jack Starbright, his new guardian is with him this time as Alex goes to Cairo, in Egypt, with him and Mr Smithers, Horowitz’s version of James Bond’s Q; the gadget man. At the beginning, we see the arch-villain: Zeljan Kurst, meeting a dying Greek millionaire in the British Museum. I recently visited the Museum myself and the detail is amazing, he drags you straight into the room. This book will see, a major twist, Smither’s final shocking gadget, and a new side of Alan Blunt. I would recommend this, to anyone between the ages of 10 to 13, because it’s a bit violent for under 10′s.
- Scorpia Rising – a children’s novel about the return of the Elgin Marbles : December 6, 2011
- Bringing Greek archaeological sites up to date : March 10, 2007
- No hand held electronic guides for Greek archaeological sites : July 7, 2008
- Parthenon frieze casts to undergo restoration : September 16, 2008
- Why you don’t have to like the New Acropolis Museum to support the return of the Elgin Marbles : November 6, 2009
- Bernard Tschumi to lecture at RIBA on New Acropolis Museum : November 30, 2008
- Calls for Lewis Chessmen to be returned to Scotland : December 24, 2007
- Lecture in Washington on Elgin Marbles : February 26, 2005