akhenaten is a fascinating shadowy figure in egyptian history archaeologists have discovered attempts to eradicate all traces of his brief reign but enough remains to tell a remarkable story of incest heresy androgyny and a massive cult of personality like camus celebrated caligula porters akhenaten is an attractive warped megalomaniac who attempted to construct a heretical religion around one sun god with himself at the centre akhenaten is a novel in verse that captures the obssessional erotic nature of its central figure it is a towering achievement a chance to die is a biography of amy carmichael an irish missionary and writer who spent fiftythree years in south india without furlough there she became known as amma or mother as she founded the dohnavur fellowship a refuge for underprivileged children