Amy is the author of the bestselling Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain, an enthralling storyteller and authoritative voice on medieval lives and legends. This year she is on a mission: she believes the legends of Saints should be given the same attention we devote to mythology. This rich and strange web of lost stories can tell us so much about our ancestors, our landscape and sacred places, our history and ourselves.
Her new book Saints: A New Legendary of Humans, Heroes and Magic is assiduously researched history and a deep dive into the earthy, visceral and unruly medieval cult of saints. Beautifully illustrated by the author with thirty dramatic paper cut-outs, Saints retells stories that enjoyed centuries of popular appeal reconstructing a view on Britain's deepest past.
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