It is 1935 and a young art restorer, Grace Tyler, is taking up a position at the ancient family home of Lord Alvey at Dommoc Hall in Suffolk. A wall fresco, covered up for generations because of sinister rumours of deceit and impurity in the family line, has partly been rediscovered and she is responsible for its authentication and restoration. But Grace finds it is not just in the fresco that secrecy and immorality is rife. The house, its occupants, their relationships, and the nearby Dunwich Abbey are full of underground revelations, some gratifying some frightening, until despite an...
It is 1935 and a young art restorer, Grace Tyler, is taking up a position at the ancient family home of Lord Alvey at Dommoc Hall in Suffolk. A wall f...
'To the Stars through the Moon.' Who is the mysterious Vivienne that history professor Gareth Owain encounters in his two-year stay in Brittany? And who are the shadowy sect of wealthy men behind her who are backing her to become his consort? Tensions will arise on both inner and outer planes as Gareth is swept up in dangerous relationship jealousies and long-foretold liaisons surfacing in seasonal rituals in stone circles and enchanted forests and hidden ceremonies behind closed doors. In Oxford a former colleague and renegade scholar is the only person who suspects the truth of a remaining...
'To the Stars through the Moon.' Who is the mysterious Vivienne that history professor Gareth Owain encounters in his two-year stay in Brittany? And w...
'There's no easy way to say this Stella... We are witches.' In the early days of WW2, Stella inherits a house and herbalist shop in Yorkshire from her down-to-earth yet enigmatic aunt. As the threat of Nazi invasion increases, Stella finds her new home is a satellite in a network of magical working lodges across the country, their base being the mother lodge in Bayswater, under the leadership of an arch priestess and adept of the mysteries. The aim is to protect the blessed isles with magic; from high angelic forms to the old guardians of the land. These include the mythic hero Robin Hood,...
'There's no easy way to say this Stella... We are witches.' In the early days of WW2, Stella inherits a house and herbalist shop in Yorkshire from her...
'This book has taken 20 years in the writing... but Set has waited 5,000 years to tell the world his side of the story'. Drawing together from scholarship, religion, art and magic Judith Page and Don Webb have added considerably to the unfolding understanding of the figure of Set. Originally situated in the Egyptian culture the god Set has seemingly torn himself loose, finding an improbable contemporary interest and adherents. Rather than deny any of the attempts to apprehend this re-emergence of Set, Page and Webb have integrated, contextualized it, and most importantly given methods for you...
'This book has taken 20 years in the writing... but Set has waited 5,000 years to tell the world his side of the story'. Drawing together from scholar...