Book of the month December 2021

Ithell Colquhoun - The Living Stones

Our first book of the month is The Living Stones by Ithell Colquhoun. It’s fair to say that Stone Club would not exist if it were not for this book, and the living stones themselves, such is the influence of Ithell on us here.

This book comes with our highest recommendation. 

As Stewart Lee writes in his introduction to the recent paperback edition “Colquhoun’s time-travelling survey of Cornwall’s culture and history brings ghosts and dead landscapes to life all around you, doing for the westernmost county what Arthur Machen did for London, what Alan Moore does for Northampton, and what Frank Waters did for the American South West.”