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  • A Walking Flame

    Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun

    by Ithell Colquhoun ...
    Nearly 40 nearly forgotten essays on magic and esotericism by Ithell Colquhoun.Writer, artist, and wilfully dissident surrealist Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) invested her unique works with magical learning, esoteric lore, and a palpable sense of mystery. Despite having published widely on esoteric and occult topics during her lifetime, Colquhoun was never to produce a single book-length edition of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Living Stones

    Cornwall

    by Ithell Colquhoun ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A classic travelogue by Britain's foremost female surrealist painter, which immerses the reader in a dreamlike Cornwall where landscape and legend meet“Her responses to the aura of place are keen, and her eye for detail is excitingly sharp” — Sunday Times“She is sensitive to the ways of wind and water, the flowers and birds and trees” — Country Life**In the midst of the 2nd World War, surrealist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Goose of Hermogenes

    by Ithell Colquhoun ...
    The heroine of this story (described only as "I") is compelled to visit a mysterious uncle who turns out to be a black magician who lords over a kind of Prospero's Island that exists out of time and space. Startled by his bizarre behavior and odd nocturnal movements, she eventually learns that he is searching for the philosopher's stone. When his sinister attentions fall upon the priceless jewel ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Saw Water

    An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings

    by Ithell Colquhoun, Richard Shillitoe, Mark S. Morrisson ...
    Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited availability of her art and writings. The publication of her second novel, I Saw Water—presented ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Crying of the Wind

    Ireland

    by Ithell Colquhoun ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A classic travelogue exploring the meeting point of Ireland's landscape and legends, by Britain's foremost female surrealist painter“Colquhoun has a very beguiling pen. . . To Irish landscapes she brings a painter's eye, writing particularly beautifully about skies, twilights, river valleys, sea-frayed coasts and the intensive atmosphere of remote places” — Tatler**Into the world of 1950s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Goose of Hermogenes

    by Ithell Colquhoun ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A trance-like feminist fairy tale of magic, alchemy, and the battle of the sexes—for fans of Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, and O CaledoniaBritain’s foremost surrealist painter puts a lushly visual spin on the Philosopher’s Stone in her first-ever novel!**In this modern fairy tale inspired by alchemy, a nameless narrator is determined to protect the precious jewels in her possession from her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • To the River

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    by Olivia Laing ...
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    An author's walk "from source to sea along the Ouse in Sussex is a meandering, meditative delight" drawing on history, literature, and the river itself ( The Guardian, UK).In To The River, author Olivia Laing embarks on a weeklong, midsummer odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse in Sussex, England, from its source near Haywards Heath to the sea, where it empties into the Channel at Newhaven. ... Read more

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