“Hast thou the courage to make the assay?”

Beyond a Year and a Day is a companionable guide to the soul, structure and history of modern traditional witchcraft. It isn’t written by an expert perched up on high, but by a practitioner sitting beside you by candlelight. It strips away the internet folklore and shows you the real, disciplined work behind a living priesthood.

It opens with a first-hand account of Alexandrian Initiation, and what that crucible actually does to a person. From there it follows the formation of the Canberra ‘Supergroup’ coven, under the shadow of the Oak and the gaze of the Raven, before opening out into a working map of magical theory and practice.

It keeps the sacred things sacred while telling you the truth plainly. If you’re learning to trust your own intuition and walk the Wiccan path with real intent, this book will hold up a mirror.

What you’ll find inside

• A real Alexandrian Initiation, told first-hand by someone who knelt there

• How to cast a Circle, call the Watchtowers and work the pentagram properly

• The Wheel of the Year, Esbats, Handfastings and pathworking on the Tree of Life

• Where modern Witchcraft actually came from: the Gardnerian Reformation, Simon Goodman’s lineage and the Sussex Tradition

• The basics of Herbcraft and Runecraft

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Paperback, 8.25 x 8.25 in · 234 pages · ISBN 978-1-7639857-0-4 · A$34.99

Best for seekers who have done the basics and want the real depth.

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“A boy on a sea wall. A man in a Circle. And the island that was not there... until it was.”

Seventy years. Two coastlines. And a lifetime of coincidences that refused to stay ordinary. Told with sharp humour, plenty of candour and a flat refusal to tidy the truth, The Island That Was Not There lays the pieces on the table and leaves you to make sense of them.

It begins on the northwest coast of Wales, in a quarry town pressed between a granite mountain being blown apart by the afternoon blasting and an iron-grey sea that never stopped breathing. Out past the white breakers lay Caer Arianrhod, the drowned court of the Silver Wheel. Nobody could see it. But a small boy spent his childhood staring at it from the sea wall, knowing it was awake, and knowing it had noticed him.

This isn’t a book of secret spells or hidden liturgies. It’s about origins, the quiet workings of intuition, and the plain certainty that the world is a lot wider than the version we’re handed.

What you’ll find inside

• A childhood in a Welsh quarry town, staring at the drowned island nobody else could see

• Fifteen years as a Police Detective, and how the Craft showed him how often he’d been wrong

• Evelyn’s own childhood in the Redfern Housing Commission, running alongside his as a second shoreline

• A two-line notice in a suburban newspaper, and the door it opened

• A lifetime of coincidences, laid out for you to judge

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Paperback, 6 x 9 in · 344 pages · ISBN 978-1-7639857-1-1 · A$34.99

Best for anyone who has ever felt something watching from just past the edge of sight.

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“You don’t need anyone’s permission to start, and you should never have to pay a cent to be taught the Craft.”

Gathered into one edition from Dylan Raventree’s original five-part guide series, The Beginner’s Craft is a solid foundation for the independent practitioner. Drawing on more than thirty years of traditional Alexandrian training, it cuts through the expensive, over-complicated aesthetic of social media and takes the Craft back to its roots: intention, focus and being in step with the natural world.

Written step by step for the Southern Hemisphere, it gives the solitary beginner a clear roadmap to follow.

This is a working book. It’s meant to be dog-eared, scribbled in, and carried straight to the hearth.

What you’ll find inside

• Cast It Right the First Time: what actually makes a spell work, and using what’s already in your kitchen

• Creating a Sacred Space: cleansing, the elements, casting a Circle, and turning a plain bedside table into a working altar

• The Beginner’s Book of Rituals: thirty complete, ready-to-use workings for protection, prosperity, healing and life’s big transitions

• Moon Magic for Beginners: the monthly phases, the tides, and running your first Full Moon Esbat

• The Witch’s Wheel: all eight Sabbats on Southern Hemisphere dates, with history, correspondences and rituals

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in (lies open on the altar) · 256 pages, with 50 illustrations · ISBN 978-1-7639857-2-8 · A$34.99

Best for the solitary beginner with no teacher, no coven and no budget.

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“The way is colder and slower than you were promised. But it’s worth every single minute.”

The Blackwood Bloodline is an atmospheric occult novel set on a rain-swept stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast. Fiona Reyes, twenty-eight, spends her days in Seattle deciding who loses their job. She is very good at it. She is also coming apart.

A faded postcard from her late grandmother leads her to Blackwood Cove, a cedar cabin at the edge of a very old wood, and a small coven that has kept the old boundaries of the land for a hundred and forty years. They let her in. They set her to work: plants, tides, wood, ledgers and long cold nights, with nothing that looks like magic at all.

But Fiona has never been good at waiting. Two nights after Yule she reads past the place she was told to stop, and opens something that should have stayed shut. She tells no one.

Grounded in the real, hard-won practice of traditional Circle work, Dylan Raventree’s first novel is about burnout, belonging and the price of a secret.

What you’ll find inside

• A heroine who walks out of a Seattle boardroom and into a cabin at the edge of an old wood

• A coven whose rites are written by someone who has actually stood in Circle

• A year and a day of slow, real foundation work, with nothing that looks like magic

• A secret, a figure from her old life, and the cost of telling the truth

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Paperback, 6 x 9 in · 329 pages · ISBN 978-1-7639857-3-5 · A$29.99

Best for readers who like their occult fiction atmospheric, and their magic real. For readers of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic, Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall and the quieter work of Shirley Jackson.

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