A review of ‘Pig’ in the great Reaktion series of books about animals from a zoological, mythological and social point of view.

Archeology is telling us interesting things about the eating habits and table manners of the Celts around the time of the historical King Arthur.

Old fashioned creative values from one of the top genre busting authors around.

Mythological cattle in Newport, Gwent. They’re everywhere!

A tiny fraction of the size of most of her other books, ‘Once Upon a Time’ has all Marina Warner’s trademark scholarly rigour, insightfulness and wit.

The artist and illustrator of several Mabinogi books, Margaret Jones is 100 this year! I was lucky enough to meet her in Aberystwyth at an event to celebrate her life.

Not just an annoying habit of nitpickers - focusing on punctuation can actually make your writing better and more enjoyable to do.

Even in our super-connected, largely secular and consumerist world Mythology is more important than ever. Here’s why…

The King Arthur of Pig Boy is probably different to what you were expecting.

A review of a punchy new translation of the Grimm’s fairy tales by Philip Pullman

Some people say Mabinogi and some people say Mabinogion. Who’s right?

A review of a great new collection of Norse tales and mythology from none other than Neil Gaiman.

A review of Hugh Lupton’s creative reimagining of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and how they were first written down.

Pig Boy is an old, old story. Before Pig Book came the show, before that the show came the modern translation, and before that the manuscript and before that a web of stories that stretched from one end of the Celtic World to the other about a young man cursed with love who goes to his king for magical help and initiation