A Week on Mount Olympus

Charlie Walden is the Resident Judge of the Bermondsey Crown Court, where he had hoped for a quiet life, but has found it to be anything but. With the job of balancing the needs of prosecutors, judges, 'Grey Smoothies', the humourless grey-suited civil servants, and the overall needs of a Crown Court, he soon finds himself struggling to keep the peace and maintain his own delightful humour.

Charlie is confronted by a number of topical issues he hadn't anticipated. Invited to join the Court of Appeal, he finds himself faced with a case involving the 'confusion' of one of his team. In another, a teacher must be penalised for defacing a statue, a huge and mysterious cat comes to the rescue in yet another case, and so the harassed Judge must navigate this minefield of exasperating cases in order to keep everyone from the cannabis lobby to the anti-slave traders happy with his judgements.

No hope of a quiet life for Charlie then, but, as ever, he deals with the issues of the day with satirical good humour, insight, and wit. A Week on Mount Olympus provides another entertaining and insightful look at the British court system, featuring the long-awaited sole Walden novel.