Discover myths. folklore, fables and legends.Traditional tales often thought to have basis in historical fact.
Myths & Legends Books
Padwolf Publishing Shards of the Glass Slipper: Queen Alice
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£13.50
Luath Press Ltd The Guga Stone: Lies, Legends and Lunacies from
Book SynopsisPlace one guga [almost fully grown gannet chick] and one stone in a pan of water and boil. Once you can pierce the stone with a fork, the guga is ready for eating…Meet Calum.In 1930, the last remaining St Kildans evacuated their isolated outpost 100 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Calum returns a few years later, alone and troubled, the sole guardian of the islanders’ abandoned homes. Haunted by the memories that linger there, he begins to re-live the experiences of residents long past.Acrobats, airmen, cormorants, cragsmen and angels leap, climb, shimmer and swoop through the pages of The Guga Stone.With subtle humour, Donald S. Murray mixes mythology, fiction and history to recreate St Kilda’s tales and legends for our time.Trade ReviewThis is a wonderfully eclectic collection of poems and prose by a gifted Scottish writer. - THE GUARDIAN
£999.99
Luath Press Ltd Tales of Loch Ness
Book SynopsisThis book helps you explore the myths and legends surrounding one of Scotland's most famous locations. The home of the fabled Loch Ness monster, or Nessie as she is affectionately known, is a favourite tourist spot. Every year thousands flock to her shores hoping for a glimpse of the mysterious creature. But hers is not the only story Loch Ness has to offer. It is home to a wide range of tales that reflect the dramatic history of the Scottish Highlands. Here memories are long and some stories have survived for well over a thousand years. From Irish priests and Pictish kings to tales of clan feuds and great love, faithful warriors and real heroes, Tales of Loch Ness will bring the legends of Scotland to life.Trade Review.
£5.99
Hawthorn Press World Tales for Family Storytelling III: 51
Book SynopsisChildren will find these ready to tell stories are short, simple, and quick to learn. They draw on traditional tales, told in the voice of a storyteller. Parents can read or tell the stories, so children can soon tell the stories themselves. Such oral storytelling builds children's confidence in their unique voices.These wonderful world tales are all selected from the highly acclaimed 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell, a reference book used by teachers around the globe. In this collection for home use, we focus on tales for children aged 6-8. The stories may be read, told and retold and then explored within the family. They offer a rich vein of world heritage, giving your family a doorway into the wonderful world of traditional tales.
£14.39
Clive Gilson Pot-Likker: Folklore, Fairy Tales and Settler
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£26.25
£26.25
Susana Imaginario Nephilim's Hex
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£11.39
Lost Plot Press Float: Enchanted Horse Retold
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£11.19
Lost Plot Press Call: Pied Piper Retold
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£11.19
Lost Plot Press Once Upon a Time
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£28.79
Sword & Cross Publishing Stolen Midsummer Bride
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£10.24
Alphabet Publishing The Feast That Stopped a War
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£7.61
Jesikah Sundin Gwenevere's Knights: The Complete Knights of
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£17.99
Oro Editions Fairy Tale Architecture
Book SynopsisFairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than 15 other stories designed by Bernheimer Architecture, Snøhetta, Rural Studio, LEVENBETTS, and LTL Architects and many other international vanguards have created stunning works for this ground breaking collection of architectural fairy tales. Story by story, Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer - a brother and sister team as in an old fairy tale - have built the ultimate home for lovers of fiction and design. Snow girls and spinning houses. Paper capes and engineered hair braids. Resin beehives and infinite libraries. Here are futuristic structures made from traditional stories, inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen and The Little Match Girl, to the Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel and The Juniper Tree, to fairy tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Joy Williams and those from China, Japan, Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico. A desire for story and shelter counts as among our most ancient instincts, and this dual desire continues to inspire our most imaginative architects and authors today. Fairy Tale Architecture invites the reader into a space of wonder, into a new form that will endure ever after.
£22.50
Violent Siren Press Graveyard Shift
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£19.00
Erin Bedford Wendy's Pirate
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£11.99
Yorkshire Publishing Grandfather's Journal: In Search Of
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£12.34
Richard Fierce The Fallen King Chronicles
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£46.54
Lamplight Universe Kingdom of Florida: The Lamplight Society
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£14.99
Lamplight Universe Kingdom of Florida: The Curse of Coronado
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£15.99
Lamplight Universe Kingdom of Florida: Guardians of the Willow
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£16.99
J.A.Armitage Deon
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£37.99
J.A.Armitage Eliana
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£37.99
Hansebooks Myths and myth-makers: Old tales and
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£25.11
Outlook Verlag A Witch Shall Be Born
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£26.91
Outlook Verlag Tanglewood Tales
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£40.41
Books on Demand Filosofische Märchen: Skurille
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£10.50
Hofenberg Die Volkssagen, Märchen und Legenden des
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£10.35
Henricus Der glückliche Prinz und andere Märchen
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£16.42
Hofenberg Balkanmärchen aus Bulgarien
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£22.05
Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Zur Stammes- und Sagengeschichte der Friesen und
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£10.90
Vero Verlag Walliser Sagen: Zweiter Teil
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£24.67
Vero Verlag Walliser Sagen: Erster Teil
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£25.42
Twisted Spoon Press The Diary of Mr. Pinke
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£13.30
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. GANGA: The Constant Goddess
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£11.99
HarperCollins India Witty Minister Stories
Book SynopsisAmar Chitra Katha has been telling India''s greatest stories since 1967, with over 400 iconic comics from the great epics, folklore, mythology, history and literature. This collection brings together some of the smartest, funniest and wittiest stories adapted by the writers at Amar Chitra Katha for young readers like you!
£7.99
HarperCollins India Brahmaputra: The Ahom Son Rises
Book SynopsisCan Lachit, Prince Chakradhwaj and Princess Padmini restore the honour of the Ahoms by defeating the rebels and breaking free from the Mughal stranglehold?
£10.19
Double 9 Books The Adventures Of Pinocchio
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£10.79
Ssel Old Testament Legends: Illustrated - Easy to Read
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£999.99
Giselle Renarde A Tale of Fur and Flesh
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£12.55
Independently Published A Long, Long Time Ago...: Tales from the hills of
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£9.11
Independently Published The Accidental Troll
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£9.78
Independently Published The Book of Maya
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£10.28
Broadview Press Ltd Her Kind: Stories of Women from Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisMedea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten years she plotted the murder of her husband Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and Conqueror of Troy. How would she have told her story? The Greek myths as we know them were told for men by men. Yet they were the culmination of a long oral tradition in which both men and women shared. Using extant ancient literary sources as her guide, including the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides and Apollodorus, Jane Cahill reconstructs the stories as they might have been told to women by women. These are stories of wronged women, inspired women, determined women, tender women. Medusa tells how it is to know that one look at her face will turn a man to stone, to be hated and feared all the time. Jocasta, Queen of Thebes, confesses her love for the young man who came to save her city from the Sphinx—her son, Oedipus. Each story is accompanied by extensive notes which discuss the ancient sources, explain relevant Greek concepts and customs, and serve as a guide to further reading.Trade Review“For people who know the stories, Cahill has sly surprising insights in store. For those who don’t, this book could show how it is possible to reconnect with tradition by retelling it, for ourselves.” — Margaret Visser, Toronto“In this engaging book Jane Cahill draws on her knowlege of the ancient sources to let women in Greek myth speak for themselves about their experiences. Her narratives are provocative, informative, and eerily persuasive.” — Professor Mary R. Lefkowitz, Wellesley College“In order for the western tradition to survive, it must continually be reinvented. Professor Cahill’s reinvention of the myths is brilliant and salutory: if women did not really tell the tales she tells, they should have—and now they can, and so can we all.” — Professor David Ball, Smith CollegeTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPhilomela’s storyClytemnestra’s storyJocasta’s storyMedusa’s storyEriphyle’s storyIno’s storyProcris’ storyAlthaea’s storyMyrrha’s storyHypermnestra’s storyDanaë’s storyThetis’ storyMedea’s storyAppendix:Adapting stories fororal telling: Medusa revisited
£35.96
HarperCollins India Prahlad
Book SynopsisThe final book in Kevin Missal's bestselling Narasimha trilogy brings to an end the moving, inspiring and exciting story of Lord Narasimha and Prahlad.
£10.19
University of Nebraska Press Yoruba Proverbs
Book SynopsisA collection of over five thousand Yoruban proverbs arranged according to theme. It includes an introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural beliefs, the proverbs are arranged by theme into five sections: the good person; the fortunate person; relationships; human nature; rights and responsibilities; and truisms.Trade Review“Obviously aimed at the specialist, it nevertheless also offers the casual reader considerable rewards. It’s not an inexpensive volume, but it’s a bargain for what it, in many respects, a monumental achievement.”—Complete Review"When it comes to the correct usage of Yoruba proverbs, Mr. Owomoyela should know."—Chronicle of Higher Education“This gigantic collection contains 5,235 Yoruba proverbs, their English translations, excellent brief annotations on usage and contexts, and a 38-page introduction! The tome also comes with a companion website . . . of even more proverbs. Readers will find in the book, preceded by two earlier proverb collections and one trickster tales compilation, a truly majestic culmination of Oyekan Owomoyela’s four-decade long labor at constructing a formidable textual archive of Yoruba oral literatures. . . . The size of this collection . . . attests to Owomoyela’s preeminence in proverb studies. The elephant of contemporary proverb scholarship has rustled the bush again, and only an incompetent liar or a malicious euphemist would report after perusing this book that he has merely ‘caught a fleeting glimpse of something’ in the forest of African proverb studies.”—Adeleke Adeeko, Research in African Literatures
£28.80
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Child Thief
Book SynopsisThreatened by drug dealers who stalk his mother's home, 14-year-old Nick is saved by a strange and compelling boy named Peter. Now this wild boy with flaming hair and pointy ears wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist, to a faraway land filled with fearies and monsters. Wary, yet with nowhere safe to go, Nick agrees.Trade Review"Ancient magics combine with feral logic to culminate in Brom's The Child Thief. A retelling of Peter Pan spanning America's earliest, magically rich beginnings to today's bare whispers of belief. Wickedly poetic, The Child Thief makes me want to believe." -- Kim Harrison "Brom has always been an artist who gave us his nightmares fully realized, but with THE CHILD THIEF, he paints in words. A wonderfully nasty Peter Pan reboot that stands on its own as a dark, twisted adventure." -- Christopher Golden "A gruesome and darkly fantastical twist on a classic tale. Brom injects pure horror into fantasy." -- Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Ironside and The Spiderwick Chronicles "Beautiful and authentically dark." -- Sci-Fi " [A] fascinating work of dark epic fantasy that blends elements of the Peter Pan story with characters from Celtic and Norse mythologies." -- Tulsa World
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Song of Silver Flame Like Night
Book SynopsisDevastatingly gorgeous'Chloe Gong, #1 NYT bestselling author of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTSI was swept away from the first page!'Rebecca Ross, internationally bestselling author of A RIVER ENCHANTEDIn a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to its forgotten past and the demons that sleep at its heartOnce, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her. She spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died.No one can see the mysterious mark until the night Zen appears at the teahouse and saves her life.Zen is a practitioner, one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumoured to be drawn from the demons they communed with. Magic believed to be long lost. Magic to be hidden at all costs.Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within. Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten.Trade Review‘Devastatingly gorgeous. From the bustling, conquered port city to the mysterious school waiting in the mountains, each page of SONG OF SILVER, FLAME LIKE NIGHT unfolds with a deliberate, skilled hand. Amélie Wen Zhao writes with a direct line to my heart’Chloe Gong, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS “A captivating epic fantasy set in a rich world steeped in culture and legend, filled with intricate magic and unforgettable characters, woven into the gripping plot. I can't wait for the sequel!’Sue Lynn Tan, SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS ‘A gloriously rendered tale of power and what we’ll do to protect. Zhao serves the action, stunning visuals, and philosophical underpinnings of the xianxia genre in high style. Perfect for fans of The Untamed. I loved it!’Shelley Parker-Chan, #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN ‘Lyrical and richly imagined, SONG OF SILVER, FLAME LIKE NIGHT brims with pure magic. Zhao has woven together a story of self-discovery, slow-burning romance, and heart-pounding revelations. I was swept away from the first page!’Rebecca Ross, internationally bestselling author of A RIVER ENCHANTED ‘Gorgeous, evocative, and thrilling, SONG OF SILVER, FLAME OF NIGHT completely entranced me. The combination of the lush prose, intricate world building, and an utterly compelling plot kept me gripped from the very first page to the last. This is a delicious, decadent feast of a book full of magic, romance, and vengeance. I absolutely loved it’Katherine Webber, author of TWINS CROWNS
£999.99
