Bookroom

Selected Starter Texts

• A Witch Alone: 13 Moons to Master Natural Magic, Marian Green, Thorsons 2002 Edition
• Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practicioner, Scott Cunningham, Llewellyn 2003 Edition
• Hedgewitch, Rae Beth, Hale, 1996 Edition

Alchemy

• The Alchemist’s Kitchen, Guy Ogilvy
• Spagyrics: The Alchemical Preparation of Medical Essences, Tinctures & Elixirs, Manfred Junius

General Interest

• Not Part of the Package: A Year In Ibiza, Paul Richardson.
• Wizardry for the Uninitiated, Thea Faye, Avalonia 2007 Edition
• The Golden Bough, J G Frazer, Papermac 1983 Edition
• The Celtic Year, Shirley Toulson, Element 1993 Edition
• The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, Tr. R O Faulkner, British Museum Press, 2000 Edition
• The Celts, Nora Chadwick, Penguin, 1991 Edition
• The Aquarian Dictionary of Festivals, J C Cooper, Aquarian, 1990 Edition
• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, Methuen 1932 Edition
• Collected Short Stories, E M Forster, Penguin Modern Classics 1965 Edition
• The Theory of Evolution, John Maynard Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1993 Edition
• The Stations of the Sun, Prof Ronald Hutton, Oxford University Press, 2001 Edition
• Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, C G Jung, Princeton UP 1973 Edition

Goddess

• The Witches’ Goddess, Janet & Stewart Farrar, Phoenix 1987 Edition
• The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Anne Baring & Jules Cashford, Penguin 1991 Edition
• The Spiral Dance, Starhawk, 1999 20th Anniversary Edition

Green Life

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, Faber and Faber 2007 Edition

Green Witchcraft

• The Gentle Arts of Natural Magic, Marian Green, Thoth 2003 Edition
• The Way of the Green Witch, Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Provenance Press 2006 Edition
• The Hedge Witch’s Way, Rae Beth, Robert Hale 2003 Edition

Magic

• Basic Sigil Magic, Phillip Cooper, Weiser 2001 Edition

Mythology

• The Poetic Edda, Tr Carolyne Larrington, Oxford University Press 1996 Edition
• The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology, Snorri Sturluson tr. Brodeur, Dover 2006 Edition

Mythmaking Theory

• Myth: Its Meanings & Functions in Ancient & Other Cultures, G S Kirk, CUP 1970 Edition
• Mythology and Cosmic Order, Studia Fennica 32, Gothoni & Pentikainen (Eds), Helsinki 1987

Plants and Herballs

• A Modern Herbal, Mrs Grieve, Jonathan Cape 1977 Edition
• The Magic of Herbs, David Conway, Jonathan Cape 1973 Edition
• Discovering the Folklore of Plants, Margaret Baker, Shire 2001 Edition
• Herbal Healing, Michael Hallowell, Avery 1994 Edition
• A History of British Gardening, Miles Hadfield, Hamlyn, 1969 Edition

 

Studies in Witchcraft

• Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England, T M Lurhmann, Picador 1989
• Triumph of the Moon, Prof Ronald Hutton, Oxford University Press 2000 Edition
• Drawing Down the Moon, Margot Adler, Beacon Press 1986 Edition

 

Tarot

• The Intuitive Tarot, Cilla Conway, Connections, 2004 Edition

Witchcraft & Wiccan Theory

• The Meaning of Witchcraft, Gerald Gardner, Red Wheel / Weiser 2004 Edition
• Buckland’s Book of Saxon Witchcraft, Raymond Buckland, Red Wheel / Weiser 2005 Edition
• The Training & Work of an Initiate, Dion Fortune, Weiser 2000 Edition
• Wicca Magickal Beginnings, Sorita d’Este & David Rankine, Avalonia, Second Edition 2008
• Out of the Shadows: Myths and Truths of Modern Wicca, Lilith McClelland, Citadel Press, 2002

Women

• Daughters of Copper Woman, Anne Cameron, The Women’s Press, 1984 Edition
• Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500AD, Henrietta Leyser, Phoenix Giant 1995
• Spider Woman: Navajo Weavers and Chanters, Gladys A Reichard, University of New Mexico Press, 2001 Edition