Avalonia Books

Avalonia Books Avalonia is an independent press specialising in mythology, religious history and magic.

★ Independent publisher of esoteric, mystical, and occult texts since 2005.

★ Our work seeks to illuminate the sacred in its manifold forms—through rigorous scholarship, inspired practice, and the revival of lost or obscured traditions.

★ We publish works that challenge conventions and extend the horizons of magic, myth, and spiritual understanding.

★ From forgotten folklore to visionary ritual

, from the roots of goddess devotion to the high paths of ceremonial art—our books serve those called to the mysteries.

★ Explore our catalogue: avaloniabooks.com

Jim Baker’s The Cunning man’s Handbook reads like a lantern held up in a forgotten archive. Within its pages lie the whi...
14/09/2025

Jim Baker’s The Cunning man’s Handbook reads like a lantern held up in a forgotten archive. Within its pages lie the whispered workings of the cunning-folk - their charms, rites, and remedies - drawn from fragments scattered across centuries. It is at once a scholarly study and a grimoire of the everyday magician, a reminder that magic once lived in the hands of neighbours, healers, and tricksters. Few modern texts manage to be both so erudite and so alive. A true classic for those who walk between history and enchantment. 🌙

In times of great change, the ancient mysteries call to us. At Avalonia, we answer that call by publishing texts that br...
11/09/2025

In times of great change, the ancient mysteries call to us. At Avalonia, we answer that call by publishing texts that bridge the seen and unseen—uniting scholarship with spiritual depth. Our works guide the soul inward, into the sacred landscape of the self, and outward into the enduring legacy of magical tradition. For those attuned to the rhythms of the divine feminine, the turning Wheel, and the inner temple, Avalonia is a trusted source of living wisdom.

Katie Gerrard’s Odin’s Gateways remains a classic - years on, it still stands as one of the most insightful guides to wo...
06/09/2025

Katie Gerrard’s Odin’s Gateways remains a classic - years on, it still stands as one of the most insightful guides to working with runes and journeying. A text that endures is a text worth returning to.

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This Sunday, the full moon will ascend, pale and inexorable, carrying with it the weight of countless names once whisper...
05/09/2025

This Sunday, the full moon will ascend, pale and inexorable, carrying with it the weight of countless names once whispered in reverence. Selene, Artemis, Hecate, Diana - goddesses of the night sky who shaped ritual and imagination alike. To the ancients, the moon was never mere rock adrift in darkness, but a living force: guardian, huntress, witch-queen. Its fullness marked the hour of power, when offerings were laid, spells spoken, and fates entwined beneath its argent gaze.

To stand beneath the full moon is to enter a lineage older than memory, one in which its silver light presses us to release what binds, to claim what calls, and to move with the rhythm of cycles beyond our control.

What will you place beneath the eye of the moon this Sunday—what burden to relinquish, what desire to awaken?

Delve into the hidden traditions of English and American folk magic with The Cunning Man’s Handbook: The Practice of Eng...
22/08/2025

Delve into the hidden traditions of English and American folk magic with The Cunning Man’s Handbook: The Practice of English Folk Magic 1550‑1900 by Jim Baker. This monumental 556‑page compendium spans three centuries of cunning folk - the liminal healers, charmers, and conjurers who walked the boundaries between church and superstition, medicine and magic

At Lagina, the sacred precinct of Hekate still breathes. Here, in the heart of Caria, the torchbearer and key-keeper was...
20/08/2025

At Lagina, the sacred precinct of Hekate still breathes. Here, in the heart of Caria, the torchbearer and key-keeper was honoured with processions, mysteries, and offerings that bound the city to the goddess's temple. Stone steps worn by centuries lead to a place where earth meets underworld, and every shadow whispers her name.

In Hekate: Her Sacred Fires, her roles - as guardian of the crossroads, protector of oaths, and guide through liminal spaces - come alive through myth, magic, and devotion.

Image: The gateway to the sacred temple of Hekate at Lagina. Standing here, you walk where her devotees once carried fire through the night, weaving bonds between mortal and divine.

🔥 May her torches light your path.

Step into Precious Apothecary, a meticulously translated Catholic grimoire by José Leitão (Avalonia), drawn from the 175...
19/08/2025

Step into Precious Apothecary, a meticulously translated Catholic grimoire by José Leitão (Avalonia), drawn from the 1754 Botica Preciosa of the Brazilian missionary Ângelo de Sequeira. Here, devotional practice becomes living magic - prayers, novenas to the Lady of the Rock and 120 Saints, blessings for oils, flowers, statues, and food, and even exorcisms and rituals for those moments when no priest could be found

Unveil the arcane world of Icelandic magic with Icelandic Magic: Aims, Tools and Techniques of the Icelandic Sorcerers b...
18/08/2025

Unveil the arcane world of Icelandic magic with Icelandic Magic: Aims, Tools and Techniques of the Icelandic Sorcerers by C.A. Smith. Based on six original manuscripts spanning from the 1500s to the mid‑1800s, this book charts the spells, staves (galdrastafir), incantations, deities, and tangible tools wielded by working sorcerers in Iceland’s rugged North Atlantic realm. Witness how humble objects -knives, bones, parchment, even sea creatures - became vessels of magical intention, and explore the motivations and methods behind practical, vernacular magic.

Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God, edited by Sorita d’Este , gathers over twenty compelling essays and ar...
17/08/2025

Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God, edited by Sorita d’Este , gathers over twenty compelling essays and artworks that illuminate the raw, ancient force of the horned divine. Journey through mythic terrains - from Celtic Cernunnos and Herne the Hunter to Greek Pan, Slavic Veles, Egyptian Khnum, and beyond -where horns symbolise untamed power, mystery, and the edge of transformation.

Published in 2009 it contains essays by practitioners and enthusiasts.

The Faerie Queens, edited by Sorita d’Este & David Rankine, is a fabulous anthology of eighteen essays diving deep into ...
16/08/2025

The Faerie Queens, edited by Sorita d’Este & David Rankine, is a fabulous anthology of eighteen essays diving deep into the myths, magic, and mythopoetic power of Faerie Queens -from the Arthurian courts to the wild woods of Scandinavia, ancient Greece to Renaissance poetry. These sovereign enchantresses emerge from liminal landscapes - forests, lakes, hills - to grant sovereignty, protection, transformation... and occasionally, a curse.

One notable piece, “Diana’s Moon Rays”, sheds light on the goddess Diana - celebrated mid-August in the Roman Nemoralia (Festival of Torches), when worshipers gathered at her sacred groves and lake with garlands, ribbons, candles, and offerings in her honour.

In the tradition of the finest esoteric publishers, Avalonia offers a library where scholarship and sorcery meet. From t...
16/08/2025

In the tradition of the finest esoteric publishers, Avalonia offers a library where scholarship and sorcery meet. From the cunning-man’s charms in The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet, to the conjurations of The Book of Treasure Spirits, the talismanic rites of Liber Sigillum, and the devotional magic of Precious Apothecary - each title is a key to a living current of tradition.

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In the worldview of the Renaissance occult philosophers, everything—whether angelic or earthly - was shaped by two inter...
15/08/2025

In the worldview of the Renaissance occult philosophers, everything—whether angelic or earthly - was shaped by two intertwined substances: the spiritual and the material.

While their studies sought communion with the Divine, their practices were often deeply rooted in material means - rituals, tools, and tangible acts that bridged heaven and earth. In Finding God in the World by Catherine Noble Beyer, explore a philosophy where matter is as vital as spirit, and the physical world becomes a living pathway to the sacred.

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Avalonia (www.avaloniabooks.com) is an independent publisher producing outstanding and innovative books which push the boundaries of their subjects and illuminate the spirit of the sacred in its many manifestations. Our books span the arcane and ethereal realms, from the unveiling of obscure or forgotten folklore which permeates the earth with echoes of ancient wisdom, to original and exciting practices which transcend the boundaries of traditions and take magic back to its source challenging the limits of transformation. Our passion for knowledge drives us.

Some popular and recent titles published by Avalonia: Circle for Hekate, Volume I - History & Mythology by Sorita d’Este Isis by Lesley Jackson Icelandic Magic by C.A. Smith Njord and Skadi by Sheena McGrath The Cunning Man’s Handbook by Jim Baker Practical Elemental Magick by David Rankine and Sorita d’Este The Book of Gold by David Rankine and Paul Harry Barron

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Avalonia is based in the mystical Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury in Somerset, UK.