From a Drop of Water – Now Available!

The new Avalonia Anthology “From a Drop of Water” edited by Kim Huggens, is now available for order from Avalonia – for more information, together with a list of contributors see:
http://www.avaloniabooks.co.uk/catalogue/titles/from_a_drop_of_water.htm

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Ludlow Esoteric Conference and Bookfair

For those of you who enjoys going to conferences for the quality of the lectures – and who also love books, the Ludlow Esoteric Conference should be high on the list of events to attend each year.  If you have not yet discovered this hidden gem of the British Occult Scene then you better go [...]

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:: Review :: Practical Elemental Magick from THE EQUINOX JOURNAL

This review of “Practical Elemental Magick” by David Rankine and Sorita d’Este recently appeared in “The Equinox – British Journal of Thelema“  – so we thought we would share.  Check out The Equinox here
Practical Elemental Magick
Working the Magick of the Four Elements in the Western Mystery Tradition
By Sorita d’Este and David Rankine
“This is a [...]

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Belenus – A God for Beltane

Continuing on in the spirit of Beltane, we thought that we should share a few more extracts on Gods and Goddesses who have associations with this festival from “The Isles of The Many Gods” by Sorita d’Este and David Rankine.
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Belenus

Name
Bright or Brilliant

Known Period of Worship
2nd-5th century CE

Place of Origin
Uncertain

Place of Worship
Across Britain

Other Names
Bel

Belenus or Bellinus is [...]

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4th birthday!

Although we have been online as “Avalonia” for more than a decade now, Avalonia Books was born four years ago at Beltane, May 1st when we published “The Guises of the Morrigan” back in 2005. I am not sure whether or not we knew what we were doing back then to be honest, but now [...]

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Visions of the Cailleach – (forthcoming title)

We are very excited that Visions of the Cailleach will soon be opening for pre0rders over at our website.  This is what it will look like:

The image on the cover is by the artist Marc Potts and is called “Old Woman in the Hedge” – we love Marc’s artwork, and we hope you do too!  [...]

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Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic ::: Now Available from Avalonia

Good News! We are now able to offer copies of the books in the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Series directly through our website – www.avaloniabooks.co.uk

This popular series by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine include:
Vol. 1 – The Practical Angel Magic of Dr John Dee’s Enochian Tables
Vol. 2 – The Keys to the Gatway of [...]

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Review of Priestesses, Pythonesses & Sibyls

We love finding out what readers think of our publications, and when its positive that’s even better.
This one is from:  http://www.horusmaat.com/silverstar/SILVERSTAR11-PG49.htm (scroll down) we have copied it below to make it easier for you to read, but do visit the site too as they have reviews of many other interesting publications there which may just [...]

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Visions of the Cailleach

As a follow on to their very popular “The Guises of the Morrigan” Sorita d’Este and David Rankine completed the manuscript for “Visions of the Cailleach” last year.  This book is currently being prepared for print and should be available from Avalonia Books in early April. 
This book will feature the stunning image “Old Woman in [...]

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Also Updated: Avaloniabooks.co.uk

Dear all,
We are very proud to announce that www.avaloniabooks.co.uk has now also been updated, ready for 2009!
In addition to information on our books, we now also have information on such things as how to submit a mss to Avalonia and the type of material we are looking for.
… and because we are so nice, we [...]

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