The Penelopiad, part of the Canongate Myths series, sold 20,000 hardbacks and 48,500 paperbacks This book is based on a series of five lectures - The Massey Lectures - delivered in five different Canadian cities. It will be broadcast by the C.B.C Payback received stunning review coverage in hardback, including in the financial media.

In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.