Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) — Patroclus and Achilles, from their first meeting through their friendship, their love, and their shared fate in the Trojan War. Miller tells one of the oldest stories in Western literature with the intimacy and psychological depth that Homer’s epic form cannot provide. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction — a love story as genuinely moving as any in contemporary fiction. Published by Bloomsbury.

Circe by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) — the daughter of Helios, possessed of a gift for witchcraft she discovered by accident, given the interior life and psychological completeness that Greek mythology denies her. Miller transforms a witch into a woman and a woman into one of the most fully realised characters in contemporary fiction — ancient and completely contemporary, faithfully mythological and entirely original. Published by Bloomsbury.