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Oh What A Knight

King Arthur: The Making of the Legend

By Nicholas J Higham

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Minotaur She Wrote

Red Thread: On Mazes & Labyrinths

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Kevin Jackson

In the Court of the Seelie King

Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present

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Edith Hall

Flower Gathering

The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths

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Diane Purkiss

Out of the Ashes

The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

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Frank McLynn

Full of Lollipops

The Oxford Book of Villains

By John Mortimer (ed)

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Naomi Price

Once Upon a Time

The Virago Book of Fairy Tales

By Angela Carter (Ed)

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Peter Jones

In the Beginning

Myths from Mesopotamia

By Translated by Stephanie Dalley

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Richard Cavendish

The History Which Never Happened

Mythology of the British Isles

By Geoffrey Ashe

This New Age Business

By Peter Lemesurier

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Anita Desai

Uncle Remus

Kalila and Dimna: Selected Tales of Bidpai

By Ramsay Wood

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James Hamilton-Paterson

What Lies Beneath

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

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Melissa Harrison

In Search of the Pig-Headed Princess

The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles

By Carolyne Larrington

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James Hamilton-Paterson

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea…

Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

By Mark Adams

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Tim Heald

Pub Idol

Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman

By James Sharpe

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March 2015 Issue

Lesley Downer

Things that Change Shape in the Night

The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

By Michael Dylan Foster

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Giles MacDonogh

A Hidden Place in a Vanished City

The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century

By Catherine Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy

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Frances Wilson

Rebels With Causes

Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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February 2015 Issue

Michael Bywater

I Told You So…

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

By Jan Harold Brunvand

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Alberto Manguel

Enchanted

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

By Marina Warner

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Rowland Smith

‘Trader or Pirate?’

Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer

By Robin Lane Fox

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