Sunday BestGeorge Verrey Smith, a suburban teacher, is bored. Bored with his wife, his life, his job. He endures each bleak day with his joyless wife named Joy. The only bright spot in George's life is Sunday. On Sunday George looks his best. On Sunday George dresses up. On Sunday, George becomes Emily. Adorned in his wife's discarded dresses, a blond wig and a slathering of make up, George feels at ease in drag. It is during a stint as 'Emily' that one of

Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work - and they learn what happened to Jonathan's family during the terrible destruction of Jerusalem nine years earlier

Twenty-six centuries later

Through the reckless incompetence of a naval commander

A stunning

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize

indispensable part of life

even if it is spiced with danger

right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets

She knows that her memory is patchy and her notebook incomplete

and their daughter join the general stampede for trains running south from the small frontier town of Fumay

she attempts to fit in amongst the other mages

'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world