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New & Soon To Be Published Books

From the creator of the 'Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast' - Jo Hickey-Hall comes 'Modern Fairy Sightings: Personal Encounters in Extraordinary Times'.
Released April 8 2025 in the U.K (Amazon) & May 6 2025 in Australia (Amazon).
Modern Fairy Sightings has recently become one of the most vital and exciting podcasts in spiritual circles. This book is both a colourful celebration of these encounters and a practical exploration of the thinning veil between worlds happening now.

Reports of fairy sightings have become curiously common. Extraordinary encounters pervade our mundane lives, whether in the wilds of nature, unsuspecting back gardens or inside our homes. According to experiencers, after crossing this threshold of ‘knowing’ we are never quite the same. Our folklore reveals it has always been thus, but in these strange times a momentum is building.

Jo Hickey-Hall’s Modern Fairy Sightings project began researching first-hand accounts in 2016. Guests on her podcast share personal stories of multi-sensory experiences that often result in personal transformations. Enlightening testimonies aid our passage through unprecedented, liminal times and are slowly helping us to realign our understanding of this Universe.

These strange things are happening everywhere now. Here is an uplifting and richly illustrated book that will show through first-person encounters that the world is far richer and multifaceted than we used to think it was and that maybe there is a vast shift taking place to a kinder and more beautiful world.

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Tunn11 said:

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland (Paperback) ​

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By Angela Youngman​

Imprint: Pen & Sword History​

Pages: 192 Illustrations: 20 black and white illustrations​

ISBN: 9781526797155​

Published: 14th March 2024​

"Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumours surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow.

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone has investigated the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story and the way Alice has been transformed over the years.

This is the Alice of horror films, Halloween, murder and mystery, spectral ghosts, political satire, mental illnesses, weird feasts, Lolita, Tarot, pornography and steampunk. The Beatles based famous songs such as 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'I am the Walrus' on Alice in Wonderland, while she has even attracted the attention of world famous artists including Salvador Dali. Take a look at why the Japanese version of Lolita is so different to that of novelist Vladimir Nabokov - yet both are based on Alice. This is Alice in Wonderland as you have never seen her before: a dark, sometimes menacing, and threatening character.

Was Carroll all that he seemed? The stories of his child friends, nude photographs and sketches affect the way modern audiences look at the writer. Was he just a lonely academic, closet paedophile, brilliant puzzle maker or even Jack the Ripper?

For a book that began life as a simple children’s story, it has resulted in a vast array of dark concepts, ideas and mysteries. So step inside the world of Alice in Wonderland and discover a dark side you never knew existed!"

Well, Carroll/Dodgson was an odd character but this looks to be a fresh look not only of him but at the character of Alice as well.
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It might turn out to be a very good book, but as writers I know tell me, authors—especially those starting out in the career—usually have no input with regards to cover-art, advertising and blurb.

So with that in mind:
  • That is a shit cover
  • It sure as hell is not the first time anybody has studied the 'dark side' of Alice in Wonderland.
I have half a dozen military biographies published by Pen & Sword and all the covers are practically the same!
 
Yithian said:
It might turn out to be a very good book, but as writers I know tell me, authors—especially those starting out in the career—usually have no input with regards to cover-art, advertising and blurb.

So with that in mind:
  • That is a shit cover
  • It sure as hell is not the first time anybody has studied the 'dark side' of Alice in Wonderland.
I have half a dozen military biographies published by Pen & Sword and all the covers are practically the same!
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She has produced a strange mix of titles:

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Angela-Youngman/a/4073 Who'd of thought of using the Hogarth Gin Lane as the basis for a cover on a book about gin?

Pen and Sword do produce some good titles as well as some quite dire ones and the covers do all look very "samey". Perhaps they are going for some sort of corporate look?

I've passed on Alice but have ordered:

Exodus From The Alamo (Paperback) (ISBN: 9781612000763) @ (£19.99) A hard look at the legend and what really happened.

Jane Austen: Daddy’s Girl (Hardback) (ISBN: 9781399071123) @ (£16.50) For Mrs T who says the author is quite good but got some facts wrong in her last book.

Britain’s Guerrilla Army (Paperback) (ISBN: 9781399077859) @ (£11.99 - pre-order) About the real plans for resistance should the Nazis have invaded.

Now I just have to find room..........
 
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Still have a while yet before publishing in Sept 2024.

Folklore and Zoology​

A scientific excursion into folk zoology; the field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised in conventional zoology. Species and Speculation accessibly reviews the science of DNA samples, film and photograph analysis, hair and footprint examination. It also analyses statistics and mathematical modelling of such alleged animals as Sasquatch and the Yeti, Nessie and Champ, the Griffin and the Thunderbirds, and the possible survival of the thylacine, ivory-billed woodpecker, eastern cougar, and others.With over 400 references, Species and Speculation is among the most complete scientific reviews of folk zoology to date, with discussion of the history and future, and successes and failures of this controversial and fascinating field. The book therefore is comprehensive while offering a fresh synthesis of the literature. The book also crosses traditional divides and is highly interdisciplinary across the life sciences, is broad, methodological, and respectful.This book is idea reading for students and academics interested and studying Zoology, Palaeontology and Folklore courses.
https://www.routledge.com/Folklore-and-Zoology/Foxon/p/book/9781032757674
 
Frideswide said:
@Tunn11 what a lovely present! How did you find it? is Mrs Tunn11 a doll's house enthusiast?

Just lovely :twothumbs:
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At Kim's bookshop in Arundel who mainly sell second hand but had this as one of the ladies on the staff is a doll's house enthusiast! Mrs T has five 1/12th Dolls houses. A couple of pictures below. This house based on the Chester rows at Xmas in Mid Victorian era. Apologies for being off topic.
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Sharon Hill said:
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Still have a while yet before publishing in Sept 2024.

Folklore and Zoology​

A scientific excursion into folk zoology; the field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised in conventional zoology. Species and Speculation accessibly reviews the science of DNA samples, film and photograph analysis, hair and footprint examination. It also analyses statistics and mathematical modelling of such alleged animals as Sasquatch and the Yeti, Nessie and Champ, the Griffin and the Thunderbirds, and the possible survival of the thylacine, ivory-billed woodpecker, eastern cougar, and others.With over 400 references, Species and Speculation is among the most complete scientific reviews of folk zoology to date, with discussion of the history and future, and successes and failures of this controversial and fascinating field. The book therefore is comprehensive while offering a fresh synthesis of the literature. The book also crosses traditional divides and is highly interdisciplinary across the life sciences, is broad, methodological, and respectful.This book is idea reading for students and academics interested and studying Zoology, Palaeontology and Folklore courses.
https://www.routledge.com/Folklore-and-Zoology/Foxon/p/book/9781032757674
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£30 for 139 pages. Hmm.
 
I always have difficulty, in excellent works like the one pictured, in telling if it's a scene of real life or a model; which I guess is testament to their quality.
 
Frideswide said:
Beautifully done, just beautiful. The more I look... wallydugs on the mantle, cat on the rug, a aspidistra! and look at the tailoring on the mannequin in the corner...
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Steven said:
I always have difficulty, in excellent works like the one pictured, in telling if it's a scene of real life or a model; which I guess is testament to their quality.
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Thank you for your kind words, I'll pass them on later as she's currently feeling a bit below par preparing for tomorrw's tests. The new project is a 1/48 set of models of houses inspired by York snickleways!
 
Tunn11 said:
Thank you for your kind words, I'll pass them on later as she's currently feeling a bit below par preparing for tomorrw's tests. The new project is a 1/48 set of models of houses inspired by York snickleways!
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I would love to see those as she develops them. Did uni at York and so spent much time in them!
 
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