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August 19, 2021

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic, edited by Owen Davies

Reviewed by Harriet If there’s one thing that this impressively learned and wide-ranging volume amply demonstrates, it’s that an interest in magic and witchcraft…

July 8, 2021

Smoke Hole: Looking to the wild in the time of the Spyglass by Martin Shaw

Review by Peter Reason Martin Shaw is a mythologist, storyteller, and wilderness rites-of-passage guide, a teacher of mythic imagination. Should you encounter him at…

December 8, 2016

Fairy tales: A Reading List

Selected by Helen Parry Christmas is traditionally a time of magic. Even if you’re no longer quite certain that Father C pops down the…

October 13, 2016

Snow by Marcus Sedgwick

Reviewed by Annabel Snow is the latest addition to small indie publisher Little Toller’s series of ‘monographs’. These smart little hardbacks are dedicated to…

October 31, 2015

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, second edition, edited by Jack Zipes

Reviewed by Helen Parry I’ve always loved the Oxford Companions, ever since I first encountered the Companion to English Literature about twenty-five years ago. They’re very…

October 29, 2015

Mythology – An illustrated journey into our imagined worlds by Christopher Dell

Reviewed by Annabel. As picture books for grown ups go, Mythology is the business. Now available in soft covers, this nine inches square book yields glorious pictorial…

Mermaids-Sophia-Kingshill
August 4, 2015

Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill

Reviewed by Harriet once I sat upon a promontoryAnd heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s backUttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,That the rude sea…

April 29, 2015

Victorian Fairy Tales, edited by Michael Newton

Reviewed by Helen Parry The sun was now set, and the darkness coming on, but the child thought of no danger but the bears…

April 23, 2015

Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain by Melanie Keene

Reviewed by Helen Parry Thomas Gradgrind is the famously awful teacher from Hard Times. His philosophy: ‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys…

Once Upon a Time Marina Warner
October 21, 2014

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner

Reviewed by Helen Parry Is it fair to claim that Marina Warner is the reigning British queen of fairy tales? I believe so. Her…

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