Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods by Rick RiordanThe original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way. After saving the world multiple times, Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, the gods aren't quite done with him. Percy will have to fulfil three quests in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus for college. The first quest is to

Plumbs the depths of humanity's darkest questions with a sense of yearning

comSpanning the years 1900 to 1977

Cox in the Spectator

and from the new world-waves of female anger and resistance

Fermanagh Lakelands

verve and high literary style

as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway

Twenty years later Kirsten

forever home

a hypnotic heroine for our time' Telegraph'Chen's Joan roars off the page

As a Londoner born to Irish parents

Told in Sebastian Barry's rare and masterly prose