<p>In A Midlands Odyssey ten writers take the stories of Homer's Odyssey and transplant them to the English Midlands. With a range of settings ? from smart canal-side apartments to late-night launderettes ? these stories are wonderfully inventive and offer a down-to-earth take on one of the world's greatest pieces of storytelling.<br>'The Odyssey theme, so rich with its tales of wandering Odysseus, the lure of the Sirens, the loss ...