Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian’s chief arts writer and patron of The Iris Project, has chosen to discuss Kenneth McLeish’s Children of the Gods , on FiveBooks (http://five-books.com) as one of the top five on her subject - Love and Greats, saying that:

“…It’s a beautiful book, illustrated with line drawings by Elisabeth Frink. I love the way Kenneth McLeish doesn’t sweeten the pill. A lot of these stories are quite gruesome and unpleasant, involving humans – and indeed immortals – coming to grisly ends. Of course, all that dark stuff is absolutely gripping and I loved it, as I think most children do..…”.

The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/charlotte-higgins ( )