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Kirsty is the author of the following collections of stories: Wiltshire Folk Tales (2011), Suffolk Folk Tales (2013), Gloucestershire Ghost Tales with Anthony Nanson (2015), Suffolk Ghost Tales with Cherry Wilkinson (2017), and Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children with Anthony Nanson (2020).
 
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Ballad Tales
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Ballad Tales

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Ballad Tales, edited by Kevan Manwaring

History Press, 2017

A BALLAD is a poem or a song that tells a popular story and many traditional British ballads contain fascinating stories – tales of love and jealousy, murder and mystery, the supernatural and the historical. This anthology brings together nineteen original retellings in short story form, written by some of the country’s most accomplished storytellers, singers and wordsmiths. Here you will find tales of cross-dressing heroines, lusty pirates, vengeful fairy queens, mobsters and monsters, mermaids and starmen – stories that dance with the form and flavour of these narrative folk songs in daring and delightful ways. Richly illustrated, these enchanting tales will appeal to lovers of folk music, storytelling and rattling good yarns.

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Kirsty is also contributor to Ballad Tales ed. Kevan Manwaring (2017), The Anthology of English Folk Tales (2017) and Stroud Short Stories Anthology Volume 2 (2018). She also writes for Cotswold Life, the Gloucestershire Echo and for other academic and museum journals. Check out her publication list here.

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