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Light Reading

Carrington, Leonora. The Hearing Trumpet, RKP, 1977.

Robert Carter. Armada, Michael Joseph, 1988, (also published in paperback as Gentlemen of Fortune, Sphere, 1989. Contains material on Dr. Dee. and the Elizabethan mindset.)

Clarke, Lindsay. The Chymical Wedding, Jonathan Cape, 1989.

Chapman, Vera. Mirianty and the Alchemist, Marylin Marin, 1987 (children's)

Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist, Harper, 1993.

Connell, Evan, S. The Alchymist's Journal, North Point Press, 1991.

Crowley, John. Aegypt, Bantam, 1987.

Crowley, John. Love & Sleep, Bantam, 1994.

Dowling, Barry. "The Alchemist" in Storyteller No. 1, ed. Ann Granat, Brooks Waterloo, 1987.

Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum, Secker & Warberg, 1985.

Foster, David. The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross, Penguin, 1986.

Gentle, Mary. Rats and Gargoyles, Bantam, 1990.

Harpur, Patrick. Mercurius: the Marriage of Heaven and Earth, Macmillan, 1990.

Hoban, Russell. Pilgerman, Jonathan Cape, 1983.

McKenna, Terrence. True hallucinations: Being an account of the author's extraordinary adventures in the Devil's Paradise, Rider, 1994.

Watson, Ian. The Gardens of Delight, Gollanz, 1980.

Whittle, Graeme. Achemy, the Quest for the Philosopher's Stone, Crawford House Press, 1993. (Children's ? Puzzle book)

Zeldin, Theodore. Happiness, Collins Harvel, 1988.