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The Story Tree
What a monkey sees, a monkey does. They all buried their faces in their hands and sobbed back at him.
The Adventures of Achilles
Achilles is the son of a king and a goddess and also the best warrior in Greece. So when Prince Paris claims Helen from a Greek king, and Troy declares war, everyone knows that Achilles will be vital to the Greek cause. With the help of the gods, can young Achilles lead his fellow countrymen to victory against the Trojans?
Norfolk Folk Tales
Norfolk is steeped in story. Whether we are treading fields, fens, beaches or streets, the landscape is pregnant with secret histories. The collective imagination of countless generations has populated the county with ghosts, saints, witches, pharisees, giants and supernatural beasts. Stories have evolved around historical characters, with Horatio Nelson, Oliver Cromwell, Anne Boleyn, Tom Paine and King Edmund becoming larger than life in folk-memory. This book is a celebration of the deep connection between a place and its people.
The Ballad of John Clare
'The first novel from, the renowned storyteller Hugh Lupton opens with a scene that could be straight out of Thomas Hardy... A helpless observer of the damage that enclosure is doing to his beloved landscape and the people who live there, a young man torn between romantic love for his muse, Mary Joyce, and the consequences of a moment's folly with a woman named Betsy Jackson, Clare comes to see that ' the bright world has begun, one by one, to break its promises.' Yet, while the immediate causes of his grief and disillusionment are personal, they are always intricately linked to what is happening to the land - and it is to Lupton's great credit that, in this engaging and lyrical novel, he brings this relationship between emotional and psychological life and the environment into play at every turn. This vision transforms a bittersweet love story that takes place 'seven generations ago' into a study of the politics of land use, revealing the true nature of British agriculture as systematic exploitation of land and people whose tragic consequences Lupton notes in an afterward, 'we are reaping the full harvest of today.' John Burnside in The Times
Demeter and Persephone
Persephone, beautiful young daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, is kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld. Demeter is heartbroken, and even though the crops are dying, she cares for nothing but getting her daughter back.
Theseus and the Minotaur
Retells the Greek myth of how Theseus defeats the Minotaur of Crete.
Greek Myths
Master storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden bring three of the most famous myths of the ancient Greek world to life. Vividly illustrated by award-winning French illustrator Carole Hénaff, Greek Myths is a captivating introduction to the stories of Demeter and Persephone, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Eurydice.
Demeter and Persephone
Retells the Greek myth of Demeter who rescues her daughter who has been kidnapped by Hades and taken to the Underworld.
Unriddling the World
Stories are living things. They are viral. They enter us through our eyes or our ears and they take up residence inside us. Some stories are distractions and diversions, others hover on the edge of revelation. This is a collection of fifty traditional narratives - stories from that winding track that leads from nursery rhyme to the great tales of creation and redemption, by way of ballads, riddles, folk-tales, legends, epics and myths. From well-loved classics like 'Anansi Gets the Stories' and 'Gawain and the Green Knight', to the lesser-known 'Glamoury Ointment' and 'The Troll With No Heart', these tales have been shaped by countless voices and they've stood the test of time. They're concentrations and repositories of human experience. They speak in the enigmatic picture-language of dreams. Unriddling the World contains the fifty wonder tales that form the heart of Hugh Lupton's repertoire and his storytelling core. Gathered together here as an homage to the powerful connection between stories and people, and the indelible mark a story can leave; these fifty are now yours to share.
