The revised editions (colour and monochrome) of Louise S. Milne's Carnivals and Dreams will now be published in March 2011. The new official date for Nicholas Mark Harding's Sunsphere is now April. Gordon Strong's Sun God & Moon Maiden: The Secret World of the Holy Grail will be out in May and Ian Stephen's Iondrainn (formerly Losses Three) will be out in June.
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Monday, 22 November 2010
January 2011 Publications
Nicholas Mark Harding's Sunsphere will now appear, finally, in January. Publication Date is slated for 17th, that special day beloved of the Priory of Sion. Although they don't feature in Nick's novel, we thought the date apt, given that the POS is largely a load of BS, a subject SS sends up (or does it?). The delays have largely been caused by Mr Lish, who has taken longer than usual to edit the MS, and Mr Caxton, who has fallen foul of the Spanish Inquisition (whom nobody, of course, expects).
Louise S. Milne's Carnvals and Dreams: Pieter Bruegel and the History of the Imagination appears on 30th, in a revised, monochrome edition. The revisions are typographical; no new material has been added to the book for this edition. We are issuing this as a monochrome edition, i.e. all the illustrations will be black and white. This is in the service of bringing Louise's groundbreaking book to a wider public. It will retail at less than half the price of the first edition. (We will also be publishing the revised edition in full colour, but a publication date has yet to be decided.)
Louise S. Milne's Carnvals and Dreams: Pieter Bruegel and the History of the Imagination appears on 30th, in a revised, monochrome edition. The revisions are typographical; no new material has been added to the book for this edition. We are issuing this as a monochrome edition, i.e. all the illustrations will be black and white. This is in the service of bringing Louise's groundbreaking book to a wider public. It will retail at less than half the price of the first edition. (We will also be publishing the revised edition in full colour, but a publication date has yet to be decided.)
Saturday, 4 September 2010
The Shop is Now Open
Our shop is now open. Go here to buy our current titles.
Please note, we only accept PayPal and Google Checkout at the moment.
Please click on 'Go to Checkout' and NOT the Google button if you want to pay via PayPal. (Clicking on the Google button will take you straight to the Google checkout, and won't give you the option of PayPal. Obviously an example of Google trying to be as fascistic as Amazon...)
You can also pay by cheque, as long as it's in sterling (AKA British pounds), drawn from a UK bank.
Happy Shopping!
Please note, we only accept PayPal and Google Checkout at the moment.
Please click on 'Go to Checkout' and NOT the Google button if you want to pay via PayPal. (Clicking on the Google button will take you straight to the Google checkout, and won't give you the option of PayPal. Obviously an example of Google trying to be as fascistic as Amazon...)
You can also pay by cheque, as long as it's in sterling (AKA British pounds), drawn from a UK bank.
Happy Shopping!
Monday, 23 August 2010
Carnivals and Dreams Reviewed
We have just received a glowing review of Louise Milne's Carnivals and Dreams, from Professor Christopher Wood at Yale University. Prof Wood writes:
Louise Milne’s Carnivals and Dreams is one of the most searching and imaginative studies of Pieter Bruegel’s art ever published. Milne tracks the transformation, in sixteenth-century Europe and in Bruegel’s paintings, of the folk ritual of Carnival into a societal nightmare of disorder and violence. Bruegel’s art, in her analysis, dramatizes the historical breakdown of community, the interrupted continuity between the living and the dead, and the licensing of misogyny and self-interest. She has the courage to return to the original insight of the Surrealists that the fantastical imagery developed by Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch was a way of thinking about the nature of dreams. This allows us to see, with Bruegel, that religious and social boundaries were finally a set of controls on the body and the sexual imagination. Milne’s sophisticated commentary on Bruegel’s paintings contributes to a new history of early modern European mentalities.
Louise Milne’s Carnivals and Dreams is one of the most searching and imaginative studies of Pieter Bruegel’s art ever published. Milne tracks the transformation, in sixteenth-century Europe and in Bruegel’s paintings, of the folk ritual of Carnival into a societal nightmare of disorder and violence. Bruegel’s art, in her analysis, dramatizes the historical breakdown of community, the interrupted continuity between the living and the dead, and the licensing of misogyny and self-interest. She has the courage to return to the original insight of the Surrealists that the fantastical imagery developed by Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch was a way of thinking about the nature of dreams. This allows us to see, with Bruegel, that religious and social boundaries were finally a set of controls on the body and the sexual imagination. Milne’s sophisticated commentary on Bruegel’s paintings contributes to a new history of early modern European mentalities.
Monday, 28 June 2010
The World's First Weather Journal
Another of our autumn 2010 titles will be a new edition of the very first weather journal ever written. Weather Diary, 1337-1344 is the work of William Merle, fellow of Merton College Oxford and rector of the parish of Driby in Lincolnshire. It's unique in that it predates all other known weather journals by two centuries, and also makes no mention of anything else except the weather. No portents, no omens, no religion. Just a lot of wind and rain. Few books provide a new glimpse into the Middle Ages. Weather Diary, 1337-1344 does, collapsing the 650 years between Merle's time and ours in an instant. Just goes to show, English summers have always been a washout....
The book will feature an introduction by Sean Martin, author of The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order and The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics.
The book will feature an introduction by Sean Martin, author of The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order and The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics.
Losses Three by Ian Stephen
We can now reveal the title of Ian Stephen's book of sea and folk tales. It will be called Losses Three and will be out in the autumn. The book will be in English, Doric and Basque.
For more info on Ian, please visit his website.
For more info on Ian, please visit his website.
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