Old Songs

Mesmerising * The Sunday Post *The stories absorb you instantly … A treat for those captivated by the medieval, grisly and historic * The Northern Echo *An astonishing collaboration of words and images that immerses readers in a magical folkloric world … These remarkable stories dice with the dangers around us and within us, and they challenge us to emerge triumphant. * Juno Magazine *She has inspired me no end – Charlie Cooper, via Cotswold LifeThis is experimental storytelling of the highest order and required reading for anyone who cares about the roots of our culture * Scottish Field Magazine *A gorgeous book * Frances Wilson, New Statesman *Richly imagined … Jeffs narrates these interconnected tales with warmth, intimacy and a subtle undercurrent of menace * Guardian (Audiobook of the Week) *These are the ultimate power ballads * BBC Countryfile Magazine *

Amy Jeffs (Author)

Amy Jeffs is a Somerset-based author and artist. She has a PhD in Art History from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and specialises in medieval art and culture. Jeffs’ first book, Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain, was a Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and named a Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year. Her second book, Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain, explores an old idea of the wilderness through medieval stories of outcasts, monsters and the natural world. The audiobook, illustrated with song, was named audiobook of the week by the Times and the Guardian. Saints: Legends of Heroes, Humans and Magic is her third book.

Gwen Burns (Author)

Gwen Burns is an illustrator in Somerset with a background in costume design and social history. Her work is informed by fine art, western symbolic traditions, historic artefacts and nature. She spends her free time at pub folk sessions and dancing with her local morris side, The Bounds of Selwood.

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