Courting the Wild Twin

"Fabulous."—Dan Richards, author of Holloway

"Terrifically strange and thrilling."—Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley

"A modern-day bard."—Madeline Miller, author of Circe

This is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age.

In Courting the Wild Twin, acclaimed scholar, mythologist and author of Smoke Hole and Bardskull, Martin Shaw unravels two ancient European fairy tales concerning the mysterious ‘wild twin’ located deep inside all o...