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10 best books like The Chymical Wedding (Lindsay Clarke): Fathom: The Definitive Edition, Theory of War, The Old Jest, Picture Palace, Injury Time, The Children of Dynmouth, Docherty (Coronet Books), The Bird of Night, Exquisite Corpse, The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms

Fathom: The Definitive Edition
AuthorMichael Layne Turner
ISBN0977482154
There are two worlds. The one we know, and the one below. Aspen Matthews has always been drawn to the sea, that is why she became a marine biologist. But when an underwater experiment goes horribly wrong, Aspen discovers her connection to life under the sea is far more than scientific. She discovers that...
Theory of War
AuthorJoan Brady
"[A] vivid historical novel--part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic."
TIME
Taking flight from an extraordinary real-life family history, here is a riveting novel of how the past lives on, generation after generation. THEORY OF WAR is the richly imagined story of one...
The Old Jest
AuthorJennifer Johnston
ISBN0140106987
4★
This begins as a light-hearted, affectionate look at a young girl growing up in Ireland in 1920, after the end of WW1, but her childish, secret adventure turns serious and shows the dark divisions in Ireland.

Nancy was orphaned very young and has been raised in a friendly, loving household...
Picture Palace
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0140050728
World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her archives in preparation for a triumphant...
Injury Time
AuthorBeryl Bainbridge
ISBN0349116113
"He almost took the wrong turning at the next roundabout. Muriel remained silent but pointed a contemptuous finger, at the last moment, in the correct direction"

Its that little clause at the last moment that captures the delight of this odd awkward story. The awkwardness is not of the writing,...
The Children of Dynmouth
AuthorWilliam Trevor
ISBN0140047182
CONTAINS SPOILERS

The main character comes across at first as a special ed kid, but as the story evolves we see that he is truly mentally disturbed. He’s an older teenager who is cast aside by his family. He has no father and his mother and older sister are good buddies, laughing, smoking, eating...
Docherty (Coronet Books)
AuthorWilliam McIlvanney
ISBN0340407573
His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come equipped for the job.

Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his...
The Bird of Night
AuthorSusan Hill
ISBN0140040722
Francis Croft, the greatest poet of his age, was mad. His world was a nightmare of internal furies and haunting poetic vision. Harvey Lawson watched and protected him until his final suicide. From his solitary old age Harvey writes this brief account of their twenty years together and then burns all...
Exquisite Corpse
AuthorRobert Irwin
ISBN1585673862
Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Irwin’s cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of absurdist art, "Irwin's novel...
The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
AuthorHelen Merrick
ISBN1933500336
In her cultural history of science fiction feminisms, Dr. Merrick explores the stories told about feminist science fiction by the various communities responsible for creating feminist sf culture, including authors, editors, fans, and scholars from across the disciplines. The Secret Feminist...
The Comforts Of Madness
AuthorPaul Sayer
ISBN0340508043
(Winner of the 1988 Whitbread Award, The Comforts of Madness is narrated by a catatonic who never speaks. To the rest of the world he is an inert body and is subjected to a variety of experiments, but his own consciousness is vital and reflective. This novel draws attention to the fact that we can never really...
Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
ISBN1935234056
In Chicks Dig Comics, editors Lynne M. Thomas (Hugo-Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords) and Sigrid Ellis bring together essays by award-winning writers and artists who celebrate the comics medium and its creators, and who examine the characters and series that they love. Gail Simone (Birds of Prey)...
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
AuthorAsti Hustvedt
ISBN1890951072
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siecle: crime, pollution, sexually...
The New Encyclopedia of the Occult
AuthorJohn Michael Greer
ISBN1567183360
From "Aarab Zereq" to "Zos Kia Cultus," this is the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the history, philosophies, and personalities of Western occultism.

Written by an occult scholar and practitioner with the assistance of hundreds of experts in the field, this volume presents the...
The Official xxxHOLiC Guide
AuthorCLAMP
ISBN0345510003
Join Yuko Kimihiro Domeki and all your favorite characters on a journey deep inside the thrilling world of xxxHOLiC! Learn more about the folklore behind the story and the various connections to the other works in the CLAMP universe. Filled with fascinating story details creator interviews fashion...
History of Magic and the Occult
AuthorKurt Seligmann
ISBN0517150328
From the demons of Mesopotamia to those plaguing our own late-20th-century civilization, this comprehensive primer covers every aspect of magic and the occult since earliest recorded time. Spanning 5,000 years of world history it covers every major civilization and includes sections on alchemy,...
Love & Sleep
AuthorJohn Crowley
ISBN0553096427
Starting in a time in the future, perhaps the end, of the series before plunging backwards through time to the childhood of Pierce Moffet, Love & Sleep starts living up to its name as events are related in a dream-like sequence and super-natural beings come and go depending on whether the characters...
The Gnostic Scriptures: Ancient Wisdom for the New Age
AuthorBentley Layton
Bentley Layton's translation of gnostic scriptures provides a great supplement to Robinson's Nag Hammadi Library. He presents one of the best and most concise general introductions to the extremely complicated gnostic mythology of anything I have yet to read. His collection of scriptures includes...
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
AuthorIan Condry
ISBN0822353946
In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio...
Ulverton
AuthorAdam Thorpe
ISBN0749397047
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries...
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 9: Daisho
AuthorStan Sakai
ISBN1569712921
Usagi Yojimbo, on the surface is a simple concept. Anthropomorphic animals in 16th century Edo Japan - with the narrative centering around a "Long Eared Samurai", a Rabbit - the eponymous Usagi of the title. Usagi,literally means Rabbit in Japanese and Yojimbo refers to "Bodyguard". Rabbit Bodyguard....
Alchemical Studies
AuthorC.G. Jung
ISBN0691018499
Another of Jung's works not to be read by the neophyte.

Medieval alchemy is usually treated in histories of science as a dead end in proto-chemistry, charlatanism or just as symptomatic of the fevered imaginations of Christians of the Dark Ages. Jung picks up on the latter theme, but takes their...
Les Noces barbares
AuthorYann Queffélec
Fruit d'une alliance barbare et d'un grand amour déçu, Ludovic, enfant haï par sa trop jeune mère - Nicole et ses grands-parents, vit ses premières années caché dans un grenier. La situation ne s'arrange guère après le mariage de Nicole avec Micho, brave et riche mécanicien qui cherche à...
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