Evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, in Wild Amy Jeffs journeys both on foot and through medieval texts to offer an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. She hauntingly retells venerable tales and the places where she finds them reflected in Britain today, from the bat-haunted darkness of ancient barrows to the cacophony of a pub wassail, accompanied by her original wood engravings. Jeffs is an art historian and artist and worked in the British Library’s department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts.