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Elizabeth Garner is the author of two novels, Nightdancing and The Ingenious Edgar Jones, both of which were influenced by traditional folk tale narratives and motifs. Lost & Found is her first collection of rewritten stories. She lives in Oxford. @Lostandfoundst2 Phoebe Connolly was born in Sussex in 1997, where she grew up in a house full of animals, art and books, surrounded by the South Downs and coast. She studied at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, graduating in 2020. Working across a number of mediums, she has developed a passion for engraving, working with line and light to capture fleeting imagery on surfaces as diverse as paper, wood, metal and glass. Her illustrations for Lost & Found were engraved on end grain blocks and hand printed on an 1840s book binders Imperial press.
'It's the job of each generation to make the old tales speak afresh, and in this collection Elizabeth Garner has fashioned a vibrant web' Hugh Lupton Lost & Found recalls the darker inheritance of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, adding a new and enigmatic tone - Times Literary Supplement
