Gods Behaving Badly- By Marie Phillips collection Alys teaches them about Jane

Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more

Wayne Muller's luminous new book gently guides us to the place where we are already perfect

personal style is applauded and cultural curiosity is encouraged

with its proper share of mad dogs and Englishmen

Gods Behaving Badly- By Marie Phillips collection Alys teaches them about JaneBeing a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ. Even more disturbingly, their powers are waning, and even turning mortals into trees a favorite pastime of Apollo's