Book description
Gloucestershire's layers of story go back to the days of Sabrina,
spirit of the Severn, and the Nine Hags of Gloucester. This collection
of tales includes sky-ships over Bristol, the silk-caped wraith of
Dover's Hill, and the snow foresters on the Cotswolds. They uncover
the tragic secrets of Berkeley Castle and the Gaunts' Chapel, a lonely
ghost haunting an ancient inn, and twenty-first-century beasts in the
Forest of Dean. From the intrigue and romance of town and abbey to the
fairy magic of the wild, here are thirty of the county's most
enchanting tales, brought imaginatively to life by a dynamic local storyteller.
Anthony Nanson is a Gloucestershire-based storyteller who has
performed throughout Britain and in Finland, Greece, and Switzerland.
He is a member of the storytelling company Fire Springs, with whom he
has co-produced many shows. A love of nature and the spirit of place
informs all his storytelling, and he has authored Storytelling and
Ecology, World of Re-enchantment and the shorty-story collection
Exotic Excusions. He is a lecturer at Bath University, where he
teaches creative writing.
