My Library

Readers often ask where I get my ideas, how I research my books and what I like to read. Here, in a random pull from my bookshelves, are some of the books and authors I go back to again and again – some for reference purposes, some just for the pleasure of reading them again.

Books of Legendary Lore

The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Celtic Gods Celtic Goddesses, RJ Stewart

Celtic Myth and Legend, Charles Squire

Celtic Fairy Tales collected by Joseph Jacobs

The Golden Bough, James George Frazer

Myths and Folklore of Ireland, Jeremiah Curtin

An Encyclopedia of Fairies, Katharine Briggs

Folklore of the Scottish Highlands, Anne Ross

Books on Ancient Spirituality

Druids, Stuart Piggott

The Druids, Magicians of the West, Ward Rutherford

The White Goddess, Robert Graves

The Celtic Shaman, John Matthews

Books With Bones

Celtic Mysteries, Author John Sharkey

The Stonehenge People, Author Rodney Castleden

The Celtic World, Edited by Miranda J. Green

The History of Scotland, Authors Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry

Scotland A Concise History, Author Fitzroy Maclean

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland, Edited by RF Foster

And anything by C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft; poetry by Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tenneyson, Scott and Noyes.