Three new books from The History Press of Stroud, Gloucestershire, are ready to grace your bookshelves.

Storyteller David Phelps brings together, for the first time in book form, Herefordshire Folk Tales (£12.99), 30 stories and legends arising out of the oral tradition: fairies, ghosts, knights, kings and spectral beasts jostle for attention in a collection which preserves the tales for the delight of present and future generations.

A different kind of mystery is explored by David Hill and Margaret Worthington in Offa's Dyke (£14.99). Seeking a new understanding of the massive eighth-century earthwork. lying along parts of the English-Welsh border, and the motivation of its builders, the authors offer a persuasive new interpretation.

And in Haunted Bath (£9.99), David Brandon opens a creaky door on the city's paranormal heritage. He takes us through a spine-tingling assortment of the spooks haunting such famous landmarks as Bath Abbey, the Circus and Royal Victoria Park, as well as a host of less illustrious locations.