Odyssey - TradeSometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . . Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband and father and his gaze turns longingly towards home. Setting sail with a small fleet, Odysseus dreams of soon lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus the ways of a warrior. However, the gods laugh at the

and so beautifully written' - Laura Marshall

She was threatening to jump from the roof

he realises that this conflict between North and South is different

Set against a backdrop of increasingly invasive technology

Is he really as reformed a character as he claims

But Johanna Harwood

darkly compelling novel from Janet Ellis

peering down its streets

They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway

In Italy Aeneas visits the world of the dead

it's determined that she actually died of acute arsenic poisoning

mothers and daughters