The Drowned Woods, by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Little, Brown and Company. 2022

Mererid (Mer) is on the run. She’s insanely powerful- a water diviner or water witch who can control water in any form- but she lives in constant fear of discovery. When the wrong person finds her waiting table in a pub, her past comes rushing past. She was the prince’s ( Read more... )

The Caillech, by Rachel Patterson. Moon Books, 2016This small book focuses on the British goddess who started as a creation goddess but morphed into a blue faced hag of winter. She was the goddess of midwives and of evil, sharing a connection with Brigid. Patterson relates the many tales of her from all over the British Isles, and also shows ( Read more... )

The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change your Life, by Luc Ferry. Harper Perennial, 2014 Author Luc Ferry is an award winning scholar and former French minister of national education. He knows his mythology, and goes back to the oldest sources he can find for his reading; in many cases, sources more than 2000 years old. He’s very ( Read more... )

The Goddess Chronicle, by Matsuo Kirino. Canongate 2012Sisters Kamikuu and Namima are inseparable as little girls, so it’s a shock when one day they are forcibly separated. Kamikuu, the older sister, stands for light and will be trained to be the isolated island’s new Oracle, separated from the rest of the tribe, her only contact with Namima being ( Read more... )