Bettany Hughes's 6 best books

Bettany Hughes is an author, historian and chair of judges for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her new book is The Hemlock Cup.One of her six best books, as told to the Scottish Sunday Express:The Iliadby HomerThis might sound obvious or marginally pretentious but this epic and its companion volume The Odyssey sing with passion and timeless insights into the human condition. And he comes up