In this spellbinding new collection Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of Greek mythology s most enduring stories A great storyteller Madeline Miller author of Circe Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus the Trojan war Thebes and Argos and Athens They are stories of love and desire adventure and magic destructive gods helpless humans fantastical creatures and resourceful witches In this telling the female characters take centre stage as Athena Helen Circe Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate imagined tapestries In Charlotte Higgins s thrilling new interpretation of these ancient stories their tales combine to form a dazzling sweeping epic of storytelling With a series of original drawings by Chris Ofili