• The best books on Fairy Tale Tellers - The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile & Nancy Canepa (translator)
  • The best books on Fairy Tale Tellers - The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
  • The best books on Fairy Tale Tellers - Vetaal and Vikram: Riddles of the Undead by Gayathri Prabhu
  • The best books on Fairy Tale Tellers - Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau
  • The best books on Fairy Tale Tellers - Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel by Naguib Mahfouz

The best books on Fairy Tale Tellers, recommended by Nicholas Jubber

Once upon a time, someone told a story that would be told for hundreds of years, making its way into books and, eventually, into movies, where the tale would again be told afresh multiple times. Who was that someone? Nonfiction writer Nicholas Jubber introduces some of the original tellers of fairy tales, as well as some of his favourite 20th-century interpreters.

  • Marina Warner on Fairy Tales - The Arabian Nights or Tales of 1001 Nights
  • Marina Warner on Fairy Tales - Italian Folk Tales by George Martin (translator) & Italo Calvino
  • Marina Warner on Fairy Tales - Russian Magic Tales by Robert Chandler
  • Marina Warner on Fairy Tales - Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
  • Marina Warner on Fairy Tales - What It Means When a Man Falls from The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Marina Warner on Fairy Tales

‘It’s a long time since ogres have seemed so absolutely real,’ says Marina Warner, author and long-time scholar of fairy tales. Which makes now as good a time as any to immerse ourselves in the twisted truths of the fairy tale realm, with Warner’s selection of the best books of, or about, other-worldly tales of mischief and subversion, dreams and laughter, ‘hope against hope’