Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  For more than a decade from the mid 1970s the artist Joan Hassall was a neighbour of my family in the Yorkshire Dales village of Malham. I...

  I've been reading a lot of Irish and Scots fairy tales or wonder tales lately and have been struck, as often before, by the sheer beau...

Kate Crackernuts is the same story type as the Norwegian Tatterhood ( #15 in this series ) in which two sisters or stepsisters sti...

 Illustration by Kate Leiper: www.kateleiper.co.uk/Instagram:kate_leiper_artist This Scottish tale is included i...