'A Fire on the Moon' tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve. Mailer is both admiring and appalled and the result is a book which is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant depiction of the now-forgotten technical issues and uncertainties around the mission.

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the 4,000-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world, until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemies - gods, monsters and mortals - who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and...

In 1969, people from across the globe gathered round television sets to witness one of the most historic moments in the history of mankind the first human moon landing. 'Moonshot' goes beyond official accounts of the Apollo 11 mission to tell the real, untold story of an event known the world over.