SAINTS

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles magic human frailty and heroic strength Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author Jeffs writes beautifully erring just on the right side of florid and her linocut prints make for attractive illustrations This gorgeous book should live on the bookshelves in every house that cares about the idea of Britain what is was and where it came from The Times on Storyland I have fallen so completely in love with this book Storyland by Amy Jeffs just one of the finest most covetable things around Katherine Rundell Saints legends suffused medieval European culture Their heroes suffering and wonder working shaped landscapes rituals and folk beliefs Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws In Saints Amy Jeffs retells legends born of the medieval cult of saints She draws on official lives vernacular romances artworks and obscene poetry all spanning from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries The legends heroes originate from as far east as Turkey and North Africa and as far west as Britain and Ireland Saints includes suc