About

Mr B's couldn't be more delighted to welcome both Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott to Bath for this truly special event to discuss their highly anticipated book, Wild Folk.

Wild Folk, a collection of seven illustrated fables, is a collaboration born out of friendship and hope; of Jackie's playful words, and Tamsin's stunning stained-glass paintings.

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator who previously studied at Bath Academy and has illustrated and written many books including, The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow, The Lost Spells, and The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane.

Tamsin Abbott has been creating painted stained glass panels from her Herefordshire home for over twenty years. Her work is collected globally and she has twice featured on BBC's Countryfile. She is a member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters.

PLEASE NOTE: The first 30 people to purchase the book+ticket option will receive a beautiful special edition of Wild Folk, as pictured below.

About the book:

Wild Folk comprises seven richly illustrated fables of transformation and power, summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet and transformed by word and image into portals between past and future.

These tales from the stones are neither new nor old. They are full of 'wild folk', shape-shifting spirits that carry the energy that connects all things. You will meet selkies and silver trout and the black fox, as big as a wolf and so fast and cunning she drives the lord of the manor to madness and oblivion; the woman of flowers who is happier living as an owl; the boy who learns to feel the songs and stories of trees through his skin; Wayland, the smith who can hammer metal to such airy thinness he makes his own wings; and the great white raven, a bird so rare it awakens the king who sleeps beneath the stones of the wild west cliffs of Wales.

This book brings together the words of Jackie Morris and the stained-glass paintings of Tamsin Abbott, but the stories come from both, a true collaboration born out of friendship and hope. These are tales to make you see, listen and most of all feel the wild magic that links stone, tree, fox and star.

"Wild Folk is a wondrous weaving of story and image, glass and ink, dream and song, created together by two makers at the height of their huge powers, who also happen to be dear friends with one another. Born of love and collaboration, the art here holds light that spills and fills, and spaces in which to breathe and swim." – Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive?

**The first 30 people to purchase the book+ticket option will receive this beautiful special edition of Wild Folk**