Heaven knows, it's a mess; it really is. The angels hate their jobs and the staff in that other department, the hot one downstairs, would really rather you didn't refer to them as... well, you know. The sun is 30 billion miles overdue for a service and is being driven by a teenager with no training and there's trouble over at Blasphemy, where the top position's been vacant for the past 300 years, which means that no one is authorised to throw thunderbolts at blasphemers (it's no wonder the humans have started to misbehave). Meanwhile, over at the Sunneyvoyde Residential Home for Retired Gods, Marduk, the 6,000-year-old deity of the ancient Sumerians, is suffering from arthritis, Osiris is having trouble with his nephew, and Pan has taken up refuge in the centre of a nearby nuclear power station. The Divine Comedies brings together two of Tom Holt's novels, Here Comes the Sun and Odds and Gods