Jem Roberts

Tales of Britain (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

77 timeless tales from up and down the length of Great Britain - Wales, Scotland, Kernow, England and the Isles - have been retold for the 21st century by curious storyteller Brother Bernard, with a tourist guide to the real location of each folktale included.

This road atlas of myth and mischief allows us to visit famed heroes King Arthur, Merlin, Robin Hood, Lady Godiva, Macbeth, Dick Whittington and Jack, but also those who should be more celebrated, like Molly Whuppie, Bran the Blessed, Bladud, Taliesin and Tom Thumb.

Since Britain became an island eight millennia ago, generations of immigrants have made their home here in Albion, creating their own stories, which have become part of the richly stocked treasury of British folklore.

Some are strange, some are sad, some are exciting, some are scary, many are silly, and at least two are totally daft. Brother Bernard retells these restored tales with devotion to the ancient legends, but with a fresh eye and added anarchic vim to be enjoyed anew.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unbound
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912618453
• Artikelnr.: 55442651

Autorenporträt

Born in Ludlow in 1978 and graduating from Aberystwyth University in 2000, Jem Roberts has a publishing heritage which goes back over 20 years, with extensive magazine experience - as well as being a performer, with shows all round the United Kingdom.

Although he has made himself the biographer of choice for comedy's elite - the official, authorised historian for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Blackadder, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and now Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, in 2017's Soupy Twists - Jem has been a committed children's writer for a lot longer.

As a journalist, he edited titles including Pokémon World, Disney & Me and Disney's Puzzle Land, and has been a contributor as storyteller for further publications - Muffin the Mule, Disney Girl, Winnie the Pooh and many more. His short story 'Little Wee' (about a very annoying baby llama) was published as part of charity fairytale collection Homespun Threads in 2012, and he continues to write his own tales as well as adapting traditional ones.

These Tales of Britain are also performed live at folky, family and all kinds of events, with Jem as Brother Bernard, and children's TV star Kate Harbour (Bob the Builder, Shaun the Sheep) as Sister Sal, and a podcast audiobook project is currently in the works.

Jem Roberts lives in Bath, and finds the idea of moving very stressful.