{"product_id":"the-fairy-tellers-by-nicholas-jubber-9781529327694","title":"The Fairy Tellers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"His cornucopia of tellers and tales is \u003cstrong\u003ea delight,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ea riveting celebration of a genre\u003c\/strong\u003e that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders\" — \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like a child after the Pied Piper, I pursued Jubber into a world both human and full of magic. \u003cstrong\u003eA carnival of a book\u003c\/strong\u003e, rigorously researched and \u003cstrong\u003ejostling with life\u003c\/strong\u003e\" — Amy Jeffs, author of \u003cem\u003eStoryland: A New Mythology of Britain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Magical tales about magical tales and tellers. Jubber, congenially and fascinatingly, explores the land from which the great fairy stories seeped, \u003cstrong\u003emaking the stories more resonant, powerful and important than ever\u003c\/strong\u003e\" — Charles Foster, author of \u003cem\u003eBeing a Human and Being a Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped them, the landscapes that forged them, and the cultures that formed them and were in turn formed by them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho were the Fairy Tellers?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Beauty and the Beast', and 'Baba Yaga'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Middle Ages to the birth of modern children's literature, they include a German apothecary's daughter, a Syrian youth running away from a career in the souk, and a Russian dissident embroiled in a plot to kill the tsar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing these and other unlikely protagonists, we travel from the steaming cities of Italy and the Levant, under the dark branches of the Black Forest, deep into the tundra of Siberia, and across the snowy fells of Lapland. In the process, we discover a fresh perspective on some of our most frequently told stories. Filled with adventure, tragedy and real-world magic, this bewitching book uncovers the stranger lives behind the strangest of tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599424995564,"sku":"9781529327694","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529327694-the-fairy-tellers.jpg?v=1777977818","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-fairy-tellers-by-nicholas-jubber-9781529327694","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}