Recently back from the wonderful Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in North Wales https://www.tynewydd.wales/ty-newydd/, where fellow author Catherine Fisher and I tutored a week-long course on Myth and Fairy Tales in…
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Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
A collection of my essays on fairy tales and folklore. The title is borrowed from an Irish fairy tale in which the hero gallops his pony over ‘seven miles of hill on fire, and seven miles of steel thistles, and seven miles of sea.’
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Myth and Fairy Tales at Tŷ Newydd
Fairy Tales at the BBC Proms
Talking fairy tales and folklore, fox spirits and feminism, giants and selkies – for the BBC Proms
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Proms Plus Talk on fairytales, August 18
Proms talk: Composer and author Kerry Andrew and writer Katherine Langrish explore the symbolism in fairy stories.
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The Weirdstone of Talybont
'I was in South Wales, standing on a real hill with a real stone in my hand, imaginatively inhabiting a children’s book I read for the first time in 1965, which has stayed with me ever since.'
All Shall Be Well
'I woke up to see a skinny little imp skipping around the room...'