Nell Gifford is the visionary founder of Giffords Circus. It is a touring circus that epitomises the very best about the art form - incredible human skill and a respect for all of its performers. With handmade costumes, passionate performers, vintage vehicles, and happy, well-trained animals, Giffords Circus has delighted and entertained over 650,000 people since it started in 2000, touring during the summer months in the Cotswolds and in London. The circus enjoysan international reputation, attracting some of the very best performers from around the world. Briony May Smith graduated from Falmouth in 2014 but has already seen her work published in a range ofpublications: picture books, anthologies, fiction and upscale children's magazines. In 2018 she was selected by Google to create one of their google doodles.

Enchantment is Gifford's business, and her text, with its bright, dusty people and scarlet velvets and gold cables and twinkling lights on silver ropes, weaves a spell