Wild Marjoram Tea by Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs

Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs, Wild Marjoram Tea, French Flaps 132 pp.

May your pockets be deep in dust,
for each mote is a star, little one,
and your right pocket holds one world
and your left holds another.

Wild Marjoram Tea is one of the standalone texts that grow out of the peninsula’s world of weird fiction and strange tales.

As with The Night of Turns, the new book explores folklore and folk horror, yet it is also a deeply moving exploration of growing up, change and the nature of being.

Beautiful, strange and terrifying, Wild Marjoram Tea draws on a wide range of British folklore sources – from the myriad treasures of English and Scottish song to the disquieting cruelty of legend – to create a distinctive world of unsettlement.

As ever, it might not be for you—