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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£16.99 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781804191354 | ISBN 10: 1804191353
Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, often cast aside and misunderstood in tales of mythology and folklore. Through the pages of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend, discover a diverse community ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781849947749 | ISBN 10: 1849947740
Following on from the hugely popular Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers and Woodlands and Forests comes Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies, an exploration of the mysteries of the stars, skies and heavens above. People have gazed up at ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804190463 | ISBN 10: 1804190462
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, lea ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662408 | ISBN 10: 152666240x
'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra If I told you tha ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780712354325 | ISBN 10: 0712354328
Once I thought I glimpsed her high up in a bush, like dirty rags in a gale. Not that so far there has been any gale, or even any wind. The total silent stillness is one of the worst things. Yes, it is a battle with strong and unknown forces ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784877767 | ISBN 10: 178487776x
Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegorie ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529333695 | ISBN 10: 1529333695
‘Required reading for fans of Circe... a remarkable, thrilling debut‘ – Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue  Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.  For millennia, ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781849946872 | ISBN 10: 1849946876
An entertaining and enthralling collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding our trees, woodlands and forests from around the world. Â From the dark, gnarled woodlands of the north, to the humid jungles of the southern lands, trees have ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571360185 | ISBN 10: 0571360181
Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before... Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780750990929 | ISBN 10: 0750990929
From caverns deep underground to sky-high mountains, the rocks and stones all around us are ancient. Greedy oni lurk in a cave in Japan; a stonecutter becomes a mountain; and a story of romance, revenge and tragedy plays out on the face of a plate. & ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781405934138 | ISBN 10: 1405934131
The Greek Myths retold... No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408891957 | ISBN 10: 1408891956
The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781452151755 | ISBN 10: 145215175x
The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. Translated and transcribed by folklorists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the 16 stories in this compilation ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781741756746 | ISBN 10: 174175674x
A sly, cheeky and blackly comic novel about mothering, heartache, heartbreak, desire, love and death, bringing the mothers of the Brothers Grimm into the here and now. You make deals with God. You make deals with the Devil. You're not fussy. But a ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780755322817 | ISBN 10: 0755322819
This is the book that broke the mould, won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX and Locus awards and showed the world that Gaiman is a storytelling genius. Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbl ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780140447361 | ISBN 10: 0140447369
Sunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child - said to have crawled till the age of seven - who grew up as prophecy foretold to become a mighty ... more
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