{"product_id":"magic-a-life-in-more-worlds-than-one","title":"Magic: A Life in More Worlds than One by David Conway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a Pre Order - Delivery prior to August 1st.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamous for his book \u003cem\u003eMagic: An Occult Primer\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1972 and since then never out of print, David Conway has finally released the first volume of his autobiography \u003cem\u003eMagic: A Life In More Worlds Than One. \u003c\/em\u003eThis run is \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003enewly typeset and re-issued. \u003c\/span\u003eIn it he describes a life which on all levels, magical and mundane, is packed with incident and unforgettable characters, mostly of this world but some, too, from those other worlds of the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his early years in rural Wales, already imbued with magic, we accompany the young narrator to college in London and from there out into the wider world. On the journey he runs away with the circus, meets an extraterrestrial (in a gay bar in Brussels!) and rubs shoulders with the great and the good – he even watches movies with the queen at Balmoral Castle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the narrative flows the magic. Fifty years ago the writer and philosopher Colin Wilson described Conway’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagic an Occult Primer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eas “the best book on magic ever written”. Now the man behind it wittily – and stylishly – describes what went into the making of the book but, more importantly, what went into the making of himself. His account will charm sceptics and believers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The style is the man,” and Conway is a lovely writer. This is an enchanting book, in service of the insight – epigraph to the book, from Einstein – that “Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Phil Baker, The Fortean Times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rose Ankh","offers":[{"title":"Hard Back","offer_id":55056939450745,"sku":"RA001","price":48.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0908\/5920\/9081\/files\/MagicAlifdeinmoreworldsthanonebydavidconway.png?v=1777302800","url":"https:\/\/shop.roseankhpublishing.com\/products\/magic-a-life-in-more-worlds-than-one","provider":"Rose Ankh Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}