The end crowns allWhen Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy and all the power that comes with it she seizes the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, she discovers just how very far she has to fall. No one believes her visions. Which all seem to be of one girl and she's going to start a war. Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love though that's proving more elusive than she'd hoped. Far from home, Helen's navigating

and has a strange appeal of its own - all seem to herald some kind of change: a confrontation

huge factories and global supply chains

by the author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

have 'proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract'

In Edinburgh

Harris Tweed has a particular smell

in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic

'August Blue' expands our understanding of the ways in which we seek to find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew

in which he shares his phenomenal mind management programme

honest and emotional it is - living up to the word 'diary' in its name - these are the things people don't usually share told with a level of honesty that most 'interviews' don't give you

But soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above

Mela's story is coming to a close