NEW RELEASE
TAROT | THE BOOK OF SECRETS
What if the future is not ahead of us, but already here—the pattern written in the genome?
For those drawn to the BOOK OF SECRETS, this is both map and mirror — a codex and a practical guide to reading tarot as a living language of reality.
INITIATION | A MEMOIR
Written in a perennial voice de Angeles rewilds her own story and transforms cultural stereotypes into the language of myth. A personal history of the occult and women’s identity.
Taken from her mother through the use of shame and intimidation, her Celtic culture, history, ancestry and name were hidden in vaults, supposedly for life. De Angeles was sold to strangers for £300. She fought. She overcame those who would erase her. In 2020, through a High Court of Australia, she achieved freedom.
PRITENI | A CULTURAL
DECIMATION
PRITENI draws the reader into the Celtic magic and mysticism, prior to the Roman invasion and displacement of the indigenous people of Albion.
Many books have attempted to present the paganism of the P/Briteni people, and most have failed for one simple reason: the indigenous inhabitants are described in the past tense, alleging that they have long since died out. De Angeles delivers the soul of her ancestral and magical people, their valour and humour, the struggle to maintain a traditional way of life, and that still live in many of you who read this.
BRAVE | FOR THE UNCLAIMED PEOPLE
The core of bravery is courage, triggered by events and experiences against seemingly insurmountable odds.
BRAVE | FOR THE UNCLAIMED PEOPLE is a series of poetry, realisations, life musings, liberations and anarchistic demand for the liability of harm. Unable to publish until the courts legitimised her identity (2020), Ly de Angeles, born bastard and illegitimate, kept this collection in silent storage for many years.
GENESIS | THE FUTURE
What if time is a fractal, forever mimicking itself. Like seasons? Like life? What would we do differently if we knew?
Life continues beyond a cataclysm of climate disaster and, unlike the militarized and corporate dimness of sectors of the northern hemisphere, the southern lands have recovered. When a young woman, abandoned as a child and named Ghost because of albinism, takes possession of an empty book, she teaches herself the almost obsolete art of writing. What she doesn’t yet realize is how deeply into the mists of myth her record is destined to travel,.
MAGDALENE | WITCH OF THE GRAIL LEGENDS
Miriam, MAGDALENE—visionary, witch and prophet—is a stranger to the woman she once was, stronger in the face of the savagery and brutality of war .
Miriam (Magdal-eder), young, naïve initiate of the Asherah tradition of law holders and wise women, is of the ancestral house of the Hasmonean line—initiator of a warrior-prince, Yeshuah ben Miriam. Complete with an extensive glossary and bibliography, de Angeles tops off the book with GOD’S BASTARDS, an addendum of research and commentary.
WITCH | FOR THOSE WHO ARE
We are the stories not bound by dogma or displayed as relics in a museum. We cause disquiet. We summon questions but it’s not our way to give answers.
WITCH | FOR THOSE WHO ARE is a compendium of lore and consciousness-altering wisdom from an elder and practitioner of this, an animist and magical acknowledgement of connectedness. It reflects on the twentieth century revival of a non-theist understanding of wonder.
LEGENDS OF THE SÍDHE
Magical Realism
Among us walk a race older than time, around us are doorways to other realities and people who are not seen, for who and what they truly are. Such are Hunter and Brighid, Black Annis, Willie and Raven, and the many others who keep magic alive in the world and who touch, in passing, those who seem lost merely because they have been blinded by disregard.
CROW MAGIC | NOVELLA
Everything has consequences
What began the four-book Legends of the Sídhe series? A dream. Some dreams are not superficial and herald art, if we take notice. Always there are signs, in magic, leading us towards a creative consequence. Everything has consequences.
THE QUICKENING
If you are lost, and need finding, perhaps the fair folk will come if you whisper your longing to the night.
The shape of a woman moves from the darkness of the stone’s shadow, a cloak of moths surrounding her insubstantiality. Kathryn and Merrin seem as different as light and dark, but a common thread of forgotten magic forges them into a power that seeks and traps the man, determined to remove the magic from the world at any cost, including murder. Winner of the COVR Visionary Fiction Award, 2006, USA.
THE SHINING ISLE
Inishrún is a small and forbidding island just off the coast of Weary Bay. It protects a deep and ancient secret: a stronghold of the sídhe, a magical race as old as the earth.
Holly Tremenhere, jaded and disillusioned by the ordinary world, travels across the wild sea to the island to unravel the mystery of who she truly is. The only person who can tell her is her estranged aunt, Mim, and her wild faerie lover, Connor. What Holly does not know is that some men will do anything for greed. She is about to be thrust into the heart of a mystery, a time out of legend and an inheritance that will forever change her.
UNDER SNOW | A FAERIE LOVE STORY
Before the us we’ve come to relate to—cell phone and air travel and debt—there was wilderness.
Is anything random? Or is everything that happens predestined? Rose (Irish gypsy) Wen’s father is murdered, seemingly senselessly and she buries him in Ireland near the grave of her mother. With secrets being unearthed—of ancient magic, king’s legends, and horsehair talismans—Rose is thrust into a way of seeing the world, an understanding of love, she never thought possible. Robin, a Sídhe-human hybrid, has a destiny with Rose, and loves her as only the Fair Folk can: utterly, beyond the confines of ocean, time and words.
THE CHANGELING | FROM WINTER, SPRING IS BORN
This is not a pretty faerie story. It breaks the rules. It confuses and disturbs, reflecting the unforgivable .
In the style of Pan’s Labyrinth, Mercy Riley is thrust into life in the cramped, cold little room down back of Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows Mother and Baby Home, in the rarely-visited coastal village of Weary Bay. A place of shame, Mercy is born and raised a secret.
Mercy fulfils a destiny that some may find confronting.
OTHER BOOKS
SAVAGE | BODYWORK
Be that hoodoo hussy they all thought was an insult.
SAVAGE | BODYWORK includes diverse subjects from taboo to menstruation and menopause, age- shaming, body and mind consciousness, adding poetry, spaces for diary entries and contemplations, and a fully comprehensive training plan suitable for both a beginner or advanced practitioner. SAVAGE | BODYWORK focusses on nutrition and a holistic human-as-animal identity. De Angeles advises the reader to be as messy and mucky with it as they choose.
THE SKELLIG | ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT SHAPECHANGER
The year is 2156. Dystopia. Misrule. Pirates, badlands, transdrone sex slaves, cowboys, rebellion.
Gamble is all woman. Most of the time. On the black of the moon she’s another creature altogether, a deal she made with the soul of earth known as the Grace, a few thousand years ago. A desperate escape across the border is the only hope for thousands of runaways, guided by an indigenous and immortal starman, the shape-shifting skellig, a Māori mystic and a good-looking scientist who should be the enemy but is not. A militarized force, not far behind, is intent on annihilation. Freedom is beyond the northern border, a mighty, raging river, guarded by a mythic race called Álfur.
THE FEAST OF FLESH AND SPIRIT
Occult and shamanic.
Reflections on every kind of ecstasy and agony.
Open at any page. Like an oracle, it discusses the depths and madness of love, or reminds you how to live. Leave behind the day-to-day world of office, mortgage, marriage, mansion or ghetto, and enter into an occult landscape where enchantment and animal people dwell. Dedicated to artist Lisa Alias (Occulture), who made it out alive after a surgical procedure to remove a brain tumour wrapped around her carotid artery, this book is a celebration and a look along the barrel of any warning, any smoking gun—the one we’ve all had, the one we escaped by a whisper.
WITCHCRAFT THEORY & PRACTICE
WICCA WORK INCLUDED
Not a lifestyle choice; definitely not a thing to do thoughtlessly.
Originally published Llewellyn USA, 2000, this title is currently out of print and only available selectively.
Witchcraft is sorcery and awareness of signs and contact, medicine and linguistics. The wicca-style ritual is up to you. Most importantly, Witchcraft Theory and Practice encourages the practitioner to know their own roots and not perpetuate the theft of identity associated with coloniser privilege. If you are not Egyptian, do not misappropriate ideas of “deification” from that ancestral lineage. That is and always was cultural theft.
ANTIDILUVIAN
UNITY/PRISM, ENGLAND, 1987
Prior to 1997, Publisher, Unity/Prism. No Longer in Print
UNITY/PRISM, ENGLAND, 1990
PRIOR TO 1997, PUBLISHER, Unity/Prism, No Longer in Print
also published as
QUEBECOIS/FRENCH
2010
L’ILE BRILLANTE also published by GAIA
Portuguese/Brazilian, 2000
BRUXIA TEORIA E PRATICA
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS PUBLISHED INDEPENDENTLY
ARCHER MAGAZINE | Shame, Gender and Aging “Gracefully”
“I recently upgraded my bodybuilding regime because I wasn’t hitting certain muscle groups, and today I’m getting on with the new program. After my warm-up I completed four sets of pullups, before heading to the Smith Machine for a weightless squat session. And then the day goes to shit.
Green-arm Tattoo Guy walks away from the squats rack, dragging his knuckles along the floor, wafting hypermasculinity like too much deodorant, and heaves a pair of dumbbells to the incline bench. In gym etiquette I communicate with him, mouthing the words You finished here? He nods and grunts. He’s left 160 kilos of plates on the bar and I again get his attention.
“Can you put your weights away please, mate?”
He drops his weights, grinds me to dust with a look, and swaggers over. When he’s close enough to bite me he says, “You’re a fucking pain in the arse, you know that?”
BAKERY HILL
A Novella of the Eureka Uprising
ABOUT
Rain. Bullets from a gunmetal sky so low it bows the backs of the people hidden beneath the peril of black umbrellas that blanket the cemetery. A crowd of two hundred. Silent men in cloth caps, pointedly ignoring each other, angry and impotent without their guns. Thin-lipped at the death of this hero.
They turn away, shoulders crowding their ears. Wet fags useless between blue lips. Heading to the pub for the laments and the safety of closed doors. The whisky. The drowning moments before it all begins again. Women’s coats, heavy against the December bleakness, drag in the mud of the track that the walking trundle back to Dublin. Holding the hands of silent children, knowing about sin already and the war they’re growing up in. All move in a wave away from the maw in the ground. The coffin of James Fintan Lalor glinting at handle and crucifix, seven foot down in the deep rectangular black, covered with a snowing of white roses.
