Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson

Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson'Astonishingly vivid' Jodi TaylorThis should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures everyone's favourite hero, right? Well, it's not. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc's mother (She has knives everywhere)Hylas: Herc's first friend (They were more than friends)Megara: Herc's wife (She'll tell you about their marriage)Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc's labours (He never asked for the job)His friends, his enemies,

the home of his landlord

the storm-lashed islands of Ireland's west coast and the lush fields of Devon

and Boot's quest to find out why humans are so leaky and weird

Discover the soldier and peacemaker that was Michael Collins

born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin

Llewelyn Moss

undergoing the tortures of the damned

where desperate and dangerous characters betray

An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials

And why are carbon sinks so important

all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons

a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as "mother