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  • The Boggart Sourcebook

    Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural

    by Simon Young ...
    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of ‘Boggart Names’ (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10,000 words). ... Read more

    Free

  • The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends

    by Simon Young ...
    Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend ResearchIn the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Boggart

    Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect

    by Simon Young ...
    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials.Runner up for The Folklore Society's 2022 Katherine Briggs Award for most distinguished contribution to folklore studies.The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Against the odds it ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Learn Korean via Simple Short Stories

    Language learning with parallel texts

    by Simon Armstrong ...
    Narrated by Ji-Young Park, Emily Potter ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 5 min

    Learn Korean through simple, engaging short stories designed to make the language feel natural and approachable. In this course, each story is presented three times to reinforce understanding and retention. First, you’ll hear the story entirely in Korean, allowing you to absorb the rhythm, sounds, and flow of the language. Next, you’ll hear a clear English translation, helping you connect meaning ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Silence of the Stars

    by Simon Young ...
    This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.In a world where memory is fragile and truth lies buried beneath layers of time, one girl follows the echoes of a forgotten people.Beneath the mountains of Kaelith, Esha's people live by candlelight and ancient chants. They speak of the Sennari only in whispers — luminous beings who vanished when the world was ... Read more

    $6.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic

    by Simon Young, Helen Killick ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary it seemed when it first appeared.By publishing Religion and the Decline of Magic, Thomas became the first serious scholar to attempt to synthesize the full range of popular thought about the occult and the supernatural, studying its influence across ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Magical Folk

    British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present

    Edited by Simon Young, Ceri Houlbrook ...
    When Tinker Bell followed Peter Pan to Hollywood in the 1950s, fairies vanished into the realm of child-lore. Yet in 1923 30-yearold J.R.R. Tolkien's visit to his aunt's house Bag's End inspired a story about hedgerowfairies or 'Hobbits', and three years earlier Sherlock-Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle published the Cottingley fairy photographs. In Ireland, a generation before, family members had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Analysis of Tony Judt's Postwar

    A History of Europe since 1945

    by Simon Young ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Tony Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989, the year the collapse of the Soviet Union provided European history with a rare example of a clearly-signposted ‘end of an era’.It's scarcely surprising, then, that the great virtue of Judt's book is the clarity and the breadth of its account of postwar Europe. His book coalesces around one central theme: the idea that the whole of the history of this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • So Much for the 30 Year Plan

    Therapy? The Authorised Biography

    by Simon Young ...
    ‘Before we recorded Infernal Love, I didn’t know if I was coming or going. I developed quite a healthy drug habit and was drinking a bottle of Absolut vodka every day. I thought that if I gave up drinking, I’d spend the next two weeks lying in bed and feeling sick. I decided to keep going and see if inspiration would hit …’ Andy Cairns, Therapy?So Much For The 30 Year Plan is the first ever book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medicines Management for Nurses at a Glance

    by Simon Young, Ben Pitcher ...
    Series series At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare)
    Medicines Management for Nurses at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration nursing and healthcare students. Combining superb full colour illustrations with accessible and informative text, it provides an easy-to-read and supportive guide to the key pharmacological knowledge nursing students and registered nurses need to know.Divided into three sections, the ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings

    European Traditions

    Edited by Davide Ermacora, Simon Young ...
    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    Fairies, elves, and other magical beings… they’re so much more than just children’s tales.For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel supernatural realm inhabited by these beings who lived much like humans in their own communities. This ‘social supernatural’ world mirrored ours with troll weddings, pixy battles, nereid picnics, dwarf migrations, and the like. Social supernatural beings were ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore

    The West Eurasian and Mediterranean Tradition

    Edited by Davide Ermacora, Simon Young ...
    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    For centuries, people across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East believed that supernatural beings—fairies, jinn, trolls, or demons—could steal a human child and leave a lookalike in its place. These stories offer fascinating insights into how different cultures made sense of disability, illness, and unexplained transformations.The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore is the first multi ... Read more

    $125.99 USD