Aleister Crowley: Family man?
Tobias Churton’s definitive biography of Aleister Crowley, one of the most divisive figures of our time, is released this month and below Tobias tells of one of the key areas that Aleister Crowley: The Biography goes where few biographies of The Beast have gone before:
‘Biographers generally have paid little attention to Crowley’s children, the impression being thus given that neither did he. Well, I had much to learn, and much of what I learned came from getting into contact with Crowley’s grandson, the stunning jazz musician, Eric Muhler, who lives on America’s West Coast. His mother is Astarte Lulu, Crowley’s daughter from his relationship with Ninette Shumway, and she has passed on to Eric some extraordinary stories about life at Cefalu after Crowley was expelled by order of Mussolini in 1923. Lulu’s mother lived into her eighties and even in old age could still recite The Book of the Law from memory. Crowley’s was quite a family. How he lost contact with them is a painful story to tell; not all wounds appear to have been healed by time.’
Become your own astrologer!
This month sees the release of Roy Gillett’s stunning illustrated guide to all things astrological The Secret Language of Astrology. Roy is President of the Astrological Association of Great Britain and one of the world’s leading astrologers and in this book he breaks down the birth chart and shows you how to interpret them for yourself.
To make things even easier our companion website www.secretlanguageofastrology.com allows you to type in a few details and seconds later get a printable birth chart (plus a short interpretation). Use this chart alongside the book to discover the deepest aspects of your character and life – or that of a friend or loved one.
You can also visit Roy’s blog to ask him questions, discover more about astrology and learn little hints and tips to improve your interpretations.
The big questions answered in five-minute pieces
Does our planet have a future? What obligations do we owe to strangers? Is there a God and, if there is, is God a who or a what? These are just a handful of the 80 fascinating and stimulating questions about the great mysteries of life that are pondered by philosopher Gerald Benedict in our new book ‘The Five-Minute Philosopher: 80 Unquestionably Good Answers to 80 Unanswerable Big Questions’.
The book is satisfyingly compact – a small format hardback that’s easy to carry around, ready to be delved into here and there, in the odd spare five minutes that most of us don’t know what to do with. It’s packed with wise and perceptive responses that guide us to deeper understanding and further explanation of these universal questions. The discussions are informal and engaging, encouraging us to shed our blinkers and put on our thinking caps.
This is the perfect book to help you reach your own conclusions about the big questions of life and, packed with quotations from great thinkers and writers through the ages, will certainly help give you the edge in those late night debates with family and friends.
Watkins moves into digital publishing
We are delighted to announce for all you kindle users out there that we have just released our first 14 books on that platform:
The Battersea Park Road to Paradise by Isabel Losada – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
Becoming Buddha by Robert Sachs – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
Countdown to Coherence by Hazel Courteney – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
Cracking the Symbol Code by Tim Wallace-Murphy – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
The Cygnus Mystery by Andrew Collins – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon .com
The Deeper Secret by Annemarie Postma – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
Fifty & Fabulous by Jaki Scarcello – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
The Healing Power of Angels by Ambika Wauters – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
Kiss of Death by Tobias Churton – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
The Knights of the Holy Grail by Tim Wallace-Murphy – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
The Missing Family of Jesus by Tobias Churton – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
The Real Messiah by Stephan Huller – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
The Rise and Fall of Atlantis by J S Gordon – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com
Super Conciousness by Colin Wilson – Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com