Hugh Lupton

Dear Friends, thank you for your generous support for FIFTY TALES. Numbers are creeping up steadily. Just to let you know that on Sunday (24th April) I'll be performing 'On Common Ground' (John Clare & Enclosures) as part of an evening to celebrate 90 years since the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass. It's at Rich Mix Theatre, London E1 6LA. At 6.45pm. Come if you can. Here's a link with more details: https://richmix.org.uk/events/a-dreaming-betrayed/ Meanwhile, anything you can do to help spread the word about FIFTY TALES or the Heart of the Matter very much appreciated. Very best wishes & thanks again - Hugh

Dear Friends, thank you for your generous support for FIFTY TALES. Numbers are creeping up steadily. Just to let you know that on Sunday (24th April) I'll be performing 'On Common Ground' (John Clare &amp; Enclosures) as part of an evening to celebrate 90 years since the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass. It's at Rich Mix Theatre, London E1 6LA. At 6.45pm. Come if you can. Here's a link with more details: https://richmix.org.uk/events/a-dreaming-betrayed/

Meanwhile, anything you can do to help spread the word about FIFTY TALES or the Heart of the Matter very much appreciated.

Very best wishes &amp; thanks again - Hugh

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Dear Storytelling Friends Thank you for your generous pledges for FIFTY TALES. I’ve now clambered up to the 50 per cent fulcrum of the glass mountain. The iron shoes have brought blisters, but the sunlit uplands of the Land of Whipperginny (East of the Sun & West of the Moon) are coming into sight. It’s a long way down though. Anything you can do to encourage friends and family to pledge would be much appreciated. I’ve added some new enticements: Non Fiction Bundle: Signed copies of my brand new book ‘The Dreaming of Place’ (writings on myth, landscape and the art of storytelling – including five ‘praise songs’ - to be published by Propolis Books on October 31st). New CD Bundle: Signed copies of my brand new CDs – ‘The Hanging of a Mouse’ (Mabinogion tales) and ‘When the Morning Stars Sang and the Angels Shouted for Joy’ (Job & other Old Testament & Apocryphal stories). Yurt Wekekend: A weekend for two in a yurt in North Norfolk with fireside tales on the Saturday night. Wishing you all a fruitful late summer. Hugh.

Dear Storytelling Friends

Thank you for your generous pledges for FIFTY TALES.

I’ve now clambered up to the 50 per cent fulcrum of the glass mountain. The iron shoes have brought blisters, but the sunlit uplands of the Land of Whipperginny (East of the Sun &amp; West of the Moon) are coming into sight. It’s a long way down though. Anything you can do to encourage friends and family to pledge would be much appreciated.

I’ve added some new enticements: 

Non Fiction Bundle: Signed copies of my brand new book ‘The Dreaming of Place’ (writings on myth, landscape and the art of storytelling – including five ‘praise songs’ - to be published by Propolis Books on October 31st). 

New CD Bundle: Signed copies of my brand new CDs – ‘The Hanging of a Mouse’ (Mabinogion tales) and ‘When the Morning Stars Sang and the Angels Shouted for Joy’ (Job &amp; other Old Testament &amp; Apocryphal stories).

Yurt Wekekend: A weekend for two in a yurt in North Norfolk with fireside tales on the Saturday night.

Wishing you all a fruitful late summer.

Hugh.

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Imogen Denny

Dear Storytelling Friends A short missive to let you know that FIFTY TALES is slowly incarnating - it’s fully funded, Ronald Hutton has written a wonderful foreword, the copy edit is being scrutinized and the approximate publication date is Spring 2025. That’s three years from conception to birth (matched only by the black alpine salamander). Thank you for your support and patience. I hope to see some of you at storytelling performances over the next few months (watch out for a revival of THE THREE SNAKE LEAVES). All good wishes Hugh Hugh Luptonwww.hughlupton.co.uk

Dear Storytelling Friends
A short missive to let you know that FIFTY TALES is slowly incarnating - it’s fully funded, Ronald Hutton has written a wonderful foreword, the copy edit is being scrutinized and the approximate publication date is Spring 2025. That’s three years from conception to birth (matched only by the black alpine salamander). 
Thank you for your support and patience. I hope to see some of you at storytelling performances over the next few months (watch out for a revival of THE THREE SNAKE LEAVES).
All good wishes
Hugh 
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Dear Storytelling Friends, The book is slowly incarnating. It now has a title: UNRIDDLING THE WORLD: Fifty Wonder Tales Many of you will recognise this as a quote from Alan Garner who has written ‘We have to tell stories to unriddle the world’. I’ve used the phrase with his kind permission. My friend Nanette Hoogslag is working on the illustrations. I’m excited to see it all coming to fruition, it will be dropping onto doormats in Spring 2025. I’ll be telling ‘The Three Snake Leaves’ (with Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton & Sheema Mukherjee) at The Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne; The Story Museum, Oxford; The Cube Theatre, Bristol; Barnfield Theatre, Exeter; The Junction, Cambridge and The King’s Place, London (and other venues) over the next few months… come if you can. Very best wishes Hugh www.hughlupton.co.uk

Dear Storytelling Friends,
The book is slowly incarnating. It now has a title: UNRIDDLING THE WORLD: Fifty Wonder Tales
Many of you will recognise this as a quote from Alan Garner who has written ‘We have to tell stories to unriddle the world’. I’ve used the phrase with his kind permission. My friend Nanette Hoogslag is working on the illustrations.
I’m excited to see it all coming to fruition, it will be dropping onto doormats in Spring 2025.
I’ll be telling ‘The Three Snake Leaves’ (with Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton &amp; Sheema Mukherjee) at The Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne; The Story Museum, Oxford; The Cube Theatre, Bristol; Barnfield Theatre, Exeter; The Junction, Cambridge and The King’s Place, London (and other venues) over the next few months… come if you can.
Very best wishes
Hugh
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Unriddling the World

Issy issy@unbound.co.uk

Dear Storytelling Friends, Here’s the cover of the book that will be dropping onto your doormats in six months time. The image is from the ‘Cueva de los Manos’ in Argentina. The hand silhouettes (some dating back 9,000 years) seemed to me to be the perfect visual metaphor for stories created by our anonymous ancestors over uncounted centuries. They also – as you will see – echo the illustrations created for the book by my friend Nanette Hoogslag. The title Unriddling the World references a quote from Alan Garner ‘We have to tell stories to unriddle the world’ and is used with his permission. The book is in the final stages of production now and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you. All good wishes, Hugh

<img src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0728/3615/3620/files/unriddling_approved_hb_packshot_1500x1800px_COLOUR_480x480.jpg?v=1727711054" alt="" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0728/3615/3620/files/unriddling_approved_hb_packshot_1500x1800px_COLOUR_480x480.jpg?v=1727711054">
Dear Storytelling Friends,
 
Here’s the cover of the book that will be dropping onto your doormats in six months time. The image is from the ‘Cueva de los Manos’ in Argentina. The hand silhouettes (some dating back 9,000 years) seemed to me to be the perfect visual metaphor for stories created by our anonymous ancestors over uncounted centuries. They also – as you will see – echo the illustrations created for the book by my friend Nanette Hoogslag.
 
The title Unriddling the World references a quote from Alan Garner ‘We have to tell stories to unriddle the world’ and is used with his permission.
 
The book is in the final stages of production now and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you.
 
All good wishes,
 
Hugh

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