Fee Greening – illustratör
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Feeling invisible in the boardroom?Cursed with a never-ending to-do list but can't find the motivation? Tempted to cast a banishment spell on your office nemesis? It's time to stir your cauldron, summon that promotion and take back control!Whether you're dodging energy vampires, dealing with ghosting execs, or cursed with a toxic team, this enchanting and wonderfully wicked guide has your back. With career-boosting rituals, confidence charms, potions for your next big pitch, and maybe a hex or two for that coworker who really needs to chill, you'll learn to own your magic and wield your power. Success never looked so spellbinding in this grimoire for modern witches.
Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies
Banshees, Boggarts and Other Folklore Creatures
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
233 kr
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'When it comes to the world of fairies Katharine Briggs is the greatest authority by many a league, and this is the finest guide ever written.'PHILIP PULLMAN'Katharine Briggs's Dictionary is truly wonderful: vivid, witty, and full of a profound and generous knowledge that will thrill both children and adults. Spectacular.'KATHERINE RUNDELL'Katharine Briggs is an editor of such surpassing knowledge that one suspects that she may have sources among witches, ghosts and fairies.'DIANE PURKISSA new edition of Katharine Briggs's short A-Z of folklore creatures, with beautiful, bespoke illustrations by Fee Greening.Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980) was a British folklorist, scholar and author, recognised today as the most important archivist of British folktales. Over the course of her life, she published fourteen books, lectured widely and was president of The Folklore Society. Her books were read and used by contemporaries including J.R.R. Tolkien. To reflect the monumental work Briggs did to collect, catalogue and publish folk stories from Britain and Ireland before the turn of the 21st century, The Folklore Society present an annual award in her honour.This new edition of one of Briggs' seminal works is a short dictionary of folklore creatures and tales, illustrated in rich detail with beautiful black and white line drawings by artist Fee Greening. From brownies to Shetland selkies, Cornish spriggans to Nuckelavee (the most horrid of monsters in all of Britain) Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies is a treasury of stories, songs and creatures passed down from one generation to the next.'Katharine Briggs is the surest guide to British folklore in the twentieth century.'JACK ZIPES'Katharine Briggs is the magic mirror on the wall. Ask her what you will...'RICHARD ADAMS****This book is a new unabridged edition of Abbey Lubbers, Banshees and Boggarts: A Who's Who of Fairies, originally published in 1979.
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'When it comes to the world of fairies Katharine Briggs is the greatest authority by many a league, and this is the finest guide ever written.'PHILIP PULLMAN'Katharine Briggs's Dictionary is truly wonderful: vivid, witty, and full of a profound and generous knowledge that will thrill both children and adults. Spectacular.'KATHERINE RUNDELL'Katharine Briggs is an editor of such surpassing knowledge that one suspects that she may have sources among witches, ghosts and fairies.'DIANE PURKISSA new edition of Katharine Briggs's book of folklore creatures, with beautiful, bespoke illustrations by Fee Greening.Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980) was a British folklorist, scholar and author, recognised today as the most important archivist of British folktales. Over the course of her life, she published fourteen books, lectured widely and was president of The Folklore Society. Her books were read and used by contemporaries including J.R.R. Tolkien. To reflect the monumental work Briggs did to collect, catalogue and publish folk stories from Britain and Ireland before the turn of the 21st century, The Folklore Society present an annual award in her honour.This new edition of one of Briggs' seminal works is an exquisite encyclopedia of folklore creatures and tales, illustrated in rich detail withdrawings by artist Fee Greening. From brownies to Shetland selkies, Cornish spriggans to Nuckelavee (the most horrid of monsters in all of Britain) Briggs's Book of Fairies is a treasury of stories, songs and creatures passed down from one generation to the next.Contents include:- Fairy animals- Good fairies & the seelie court- Wicked fairies &the unseelie court- Ghosts & spirits- People of the sea'Katharine Briggs is the surest guide to British folklore in the twentieth century.'JACK ZIPES'Katharine Briggs is the magic mirror on the wall. Ask her what you will...'RICHARD ADAMS****This book is a new edition of Abbey Lubbers, Banshees and Boggarts: A Who's Who of Fairies, originally published in 1979.