The Greek myths’ peak patriarchy, dramatic power imbalances and raging toxic masculinity demanded to be fed into the gender-swapping algorithm.

And I want to see male Hera and Athena sponsor an eleven year vendetta against Troy because they're jealous that a mortal said Male Aphrodite was better looking than them.But the pair believe that by swapping the two dominant gender constructs, the division will be disrupted and this will get us all thinking about how gender defines everyone and everything. The art, both in the book and on the cover are eye-catching, which adds another dimension to the stories.

It is preceded by him hearing a prophecy about the child of Metis, the Titan goddess of shrewd thinking, being greater than its father. In these stories, brutality and bravery are reserved for men, while women are wicked witches or helpless maidens. The thought of miserable people trawling through them to make them fit the norms of today make me think of Samuel Bowlder, painstakingly going through Shakespeare to remove the bits unsuitable for women and children. I am hoping people more eloquent than me on this blog tour will explain why this book is so brilliant and so beautiful. It converts a complex and interesting concept and translated it in a way that I find could be very engaging for younger readers.

One thing we noticed is that the male characters now have ‘feminine’ traits hardly ever represented in today’s media. Following the incredible success of Gender Swapped Fairy Tales they have taken that same simple step. I loved the idea of gender-swapping Greek myths and having the males turned into females really changed the story quite a lot. Some of them I had to reread a few times because the plot was slightly confusing me (although this may just be because Greek myths are confusing in themselves, I’m not sure). More surprising, and perhaps more interesting, is what happens when the algorithm spits out new men.

Jake Alexander(Two Hoots)When Rosa finds herself bored during the holidays, her dad suggests going to the library to borrow some books. Now if it had been done by hand with choices made by the author perhaps the writing would’ve read a lot more authentic. It’s more important for us to make people think about the current world and how it could be different,” says Plackett. I think that this was very well thought out and it all worked perfectly and the illustrations were very pretty.Karrie and Jonathan love these stories, and have found a way to breathe new life into them by making one crucial change. It is hard to put into words how clever these books are and for me to explain why these gender swapped myths and the original Gender Swapped Fairy Tales are so important. The ones put into the algorithm that Plackett created aren't the originals, but they were still good stories. His work has been featured in worldwide press including The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, The Times, The Telegraph and the BBC. The male characters have feminie traits, they do the things originally done by women, they behave the way women do in the original stories, say the things women say and it really makes you stop, look up from the page and really think.

Plackett’s original idea, in fact, was to do it with newspaper articles, prompted by a report of a meeting between Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon that focused chiefly on their legs, and how that would look had it been applied to David Cameron and Barack Obama. In these stories, brutality and bravery are reserved for men, while women are wicked witches, princesses in need of rescuing or helpless maidens. That doesn’t mean the exercise isn’t valid – it’s not as if there isn’t enough still there that needs that light shone on it. Faced with this injustice, Rosa, with the help of her sister Maria, decides that she can’t stay silent.

The concept and the digital element has totally captured his interest and he wants to read some of his favourite, classic books with the gender swaps. The purpose of this book is to help us see our own world and all its inequalities in a clearer light and hopefully to help us all empathise with ‘the other side’. It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be amazed by the world this swap creates - and by the new godesses, heroes, villainesses and adventurers you're about to discover. The seven bachelors shrieked, but tried to stand up bravely and face their fate; and the six young women stood together with firm-set teeth and clenched fists, ready to fight to the last. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer.