Morana is an Angel of Death, Alter a Demon of Death. Sharing a flat (for convenience), while working on opposite sides of the same business, they are suddenly forced to work together to solve the ultimate question: Why have they both been sent to collect the soul of Wilfred Bailey Jr - famous actor, womaniser and socialite - who's still very much alive? Combining a variety of contemporary influences (The Screwtape Letters meets It's A Wonderful Life, with a few TV adverts, detective shows and cookery programmes thrown in for good measure), this novel combines religion, technology and...

In Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, we are told of Odysseus' great adventures following the destruction of Troy - his desperate homeward journey back to his patiently waiting wife and child. Yet he spent seven years of that journey in one place - the island of Ogygia. There he remained with Kalypso until she finally asked him to leave. How could a man known for besting a great Cyclops, defying an enchantress, and bringing about the end of the Trojan war with his great inventive mind, not manage to escape from one 'goddess' for seven years? Could he really have been kept there against his own...