No Friend to This HouseIndependent Bookshop Edition 'Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer' Radio Times No Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes. This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me . . . Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The

a crease of annoyance across her forehead

Hold it in your hand

Gabriel may not survive to see the truth of the Grail revealed

this uniquely strange and extraordinary novel about a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control has come to be seen by many as being the key work and a turning point in his career

This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies a husband and wife shot dead

once the King of Denmark's mistress

Hel in turn is intrigued by Helen

and is therefore protected from the wrath of the Inquisition by the King

Should he stay in London

and the woman who raised him - has a very good reason to have done it

it is the voice of the target's wife that mesmerises him

When she takes a job shoring up the ancient quarries under her hometown of Bath