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Tag Archives: Rebsie Fairholm
4th Anniversary Special: New Expanded Edition of Rebecca Wilby’s This Wretched Splendour
To celebrate our 4th anniversary at Skylight Press, and in honour of the First World War Centenary, we have reissued our very first book, This Wretched Splendour, in an all-new expanded edition. This new edition includes a one-act play, Wild With … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged 4th anniversary, British Drama, British History, British Literature, Centenary, Drama, English Drama, English history, English literature, First WIrkd War Centenary, first world war, great war, Literature, Michael Billington, Plays, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Siegfried Sassoon, Skylight Press, The Guardian, theatre, This Wretched Splendour, War poetry, Wilfred Owen, World War One, Wretched Splendour
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The Lost Art of Potato Breeding by Rebsie Fairholm
Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour and cooking quality. In the modern world, industrialised … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Andes, blight, Botany, breeding, cloning, cross-breeding, cross-over, cultivars, cultivation, Daughter of the Soil, diploit, Flowers, Garden Alchemy, garden varieties, Gardening, Gardening Guide, heirlooms, heritage Gardening, heritage vegetables, History, Hobby, Horticultural, horticulture, hybridization, landraces, legumes, mutation, plant breeding, pollination, polyploidy, Potato, Potato Breeding, Potatoes, Rebsie Fairholm, Seeds, tetraploid, The Lost Art of Potato Breeding, tubers, vegetable breeding, vegetable varieties, vegetables
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Happy New Year! Need a Calendar?
Happy New Year from all at Skylight Press. We look forward to bringing you many more exciting books during 2014. If anyone needs a calendar for the new year – feel free to order our new Skylight Press 2014 Calendar … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Uncategorized
Tagged 2014, 2014 Calendar, Calendar, Cheltenham, Cotswolds, Daniel Staniforth, Gloucestershire, Malverns, Nature, New Year, photography, Rebsie Fairholm, Redbubble, Skylight Press
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Limpley Stoke: A Dion Fortune Connection
During July, Daniel and I were lucky enough to have a guided tour of the Limpley Stoke valley with the wonderful Alan Richardson, author of Dion Fortune’s biography Priestess. A magical area in its own right, and full of faery … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, Essays, Events
Tagged Alan Richardson, Ancient Monuments, Avalon Group, Bath, Bradford-on-Avon, Church, Daniel Staniforth, Dion Fortune, England, English history, esoteric, faery, Great Britain, Limpley Stoke, Llandudno, Occult, Pre-Christian, Rebsie Fairholm, sarah jane smith, Saxon, Sea Priestess, Skylight Press, Society of the Inner Light, Somerset, st mary the virgin, St. Mary's, Violet Firth, Wiltshire
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“Now We are Three” by Gareth Knight
Now we are three. That is to say – three years old. And we are Skylight Press. A brain child of my daughter Rebecca (AKA Rebsie) along with kindred spirit Daniel Staniforth, based in the USA, and we recently got together … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Events, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, Anthony Duncan, Archeology, Arthurian Tradition, authors, Bath, Birthday, Book Design, books., Celtic, Christian Mystical Tradition, Daniel Staniforth, Dion Fortune, England, esoteric, faery, fiction, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, Graphic Design, Helios Books, hermeticism, Hugh Fox, iain sinclair, Israel Regardie, literary, Literature, Magic, magical ritual methods, Margaret Lumley Brown, mediaeval history, Memoir, Merlin, Mystical, mythology, Nick Farrell, novel, Occult, occult fiction, Peregrin Wildoak, Peter Ackroyd, poetry, press, Psycogeography, Publisher, qabala, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, ritual magic, Skylight Press, Society of Inner Light, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray, Writers
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MAGICAL SITES OF THE COTSWOLDS – A Calendar by Rebsie Fairholm
Need the perfect Christmas present for your friends and family? Here is a beautiful 2013 calendar presenting the wonderful photographs of Skylight Press book designer and author, Rebsie Fairholm, featuring favourite magical sites from around her beloved Cotswolds. Rebsie is the … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, Essays, New authors, Recommended reads, Uncategorized
Tagged 2013 Calendar, Art, Calendars, Cheltenham, Cheltonia, Christmas Presents, Cotswolds, Daughter of the Soil, English countryside, English Culture, English history, esoteric, Gardening, Gloucestershire, Great Britain, Heritage, Magic, Magical, Magical sites, Nature, Photographs, photography, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Sacred Earth, sacred geometry, Sacred Sites, Skylight Press, Sulis Manouevre
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Skylight Booksignings!
Today’s booksigning at Waterstones Gloucester went well with ChrisHill signing copies of his recent novel, Song of the Sea God. Skylight’s one and only Rebsie Fairholm sat with him for the event, which was touted a success. Skylight booksignings have happened all … Continue reading
A Skylit Gallery
Skylight Press has been truly blessed in many ways in its first two years of existence and one of the more marvellous developments, completely unforeseen and unplanned, is that many of its authors and compilers just also happen to be … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract expressionist painter, Architecture, Art, Art Galleries, arts, artwork, Basil King, Black Mountain College, Book Art, Book covers, Charcoal, collage, Dee Sunshine, Drawing, drawings, esoteric, Etchings, Exhibitions, expressionism, fiction, Gloucestershire, Gouache, Green Man, Illlustrations, illustration, Infrared photography, Landscape, Margaret Randall, Matt Baldwin-Ives, Mikki Nylund, MilesCross, New York, New York Art scene, Nicaragua, Novelist, Occult, Oil Painting, Painting, Pastel painting, Photographs, photography, Photomontage, poetry, Rebsie Fairholm, Rikki Ducornet, Ruins, Sacred Sites, Scandinavia, Scandinavian art, Skylight Press, Social Activism, Stone Carvings, Surrealism, visionary poet, Watercolour painting, Will Alexander
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Sacred Earth Walks with Rebsie
There is no doubt that Skylight Press has a deep interest in ‘Sacred Earth’ mysteries, as evidenced by Alan Richardson’s geo-psychic novel On Winsley Hill, Margaret Randall’s array of sacred Landscapes in Something’s Wrong with the Cornfields, Hugh Fox’s internal … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, Albion, Ancient History, Britain, British History, Celts, Cheltenham, Cheltonia, Cotswolds, England, English history, esoteric, Folksongs, Gloucestershire, iain sinclair, Landscape, Malverns, mythology, Nature, Psyche Folk, Psychogeography, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Romans, Sacred Earth, Sacred Geography, Saxons, Somerset, Southwest England, Sulis Manouevre
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Through the Skylight 