White Crow Books imprint: 82 books

Standing six foot, four inches tall, and weighing 21 stone, GK Chesterton was a man of striking appearance; and all the more so for his chosen uniform of cape, large hat, swordstick and cigar. A prolific writer, he regarded himself primarily as a journalist; but also wrote poetry, philosophy, biography,...

Dwight Goddards collection of translations of a cross-section of Buddhist traditions was a fundamental part of the importation of Buddhism into the USA and then through the work of the Beat Poets that the book influenced throughout the West as a whole.Goddard had originally been an engineer but after...

In 1951, a young hospital doctor treated a patient suffering from a rare and debilitating skin disease - thought to be incurable - with a single session of hypnosis, unaware that he was about to make medical history. The case caused a sensation. Doctors described it as unprecedented and inexplicable...

The Near Death Experience or N.D.E. is becoming the most talked about phenomenon of the 21st century.  All over the world people experience life threatening events on a daily basis, and having been resuscitated, they often experience tunnels, light, beautiful surroundings, spiritual guides, deceased...

We can be certain that the body does not survive death. Once the heart stops circulating blood, the brain is no longer nourished and begins to decay. On the basis of medical evidence it would seem that, within a quarter of an hour, the personality is irreparably destroyed and the individual ceases to...

When Tertium Organum burst onto the New York literary scene its author, P. D. Ouspensky, was unaware of it. Piotr Demianovich Ouspensky, the most famous pupil of Greco-Armenian spiritual teacher George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, had written Kluck Kzaradkam (the original title) in his native Russian and it...

The Road to Immortality provides the reader with a sublime vision of the afterlife, allegedly communicated from other side by the eminent psychologist and psychic researcher Frederic William Henry Myers.Myers was one of the founders of the Society of Psychical Research and he spent much of his life researching...

Rebecca Ruter Springer was 29 when the American Civil War started in 1861. When the war ended five years later, 620,000 soldiers and countless civilians lay dead. It is not surprising, therefore, that the dead and heaven were much considered over the next forty years in the USA. And it was this spiritual...

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich is the first book written in English by a woman. But the work is read now not for historical interest but for the God she describes and the optimism she exudes; an optimism all the more remarkable for the setting in which she wrote.Optimism is in Julians...

To those who knew him Home was one of the most lovable of men and his prefect genuineness and uprightness were beyond suspicion." Sir William Crookes - President of The Royal Society D. D. Home is regarded by many as the greatest medium of all time. The term 'psychic' was coined as a description for...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of Britain's most celebrated writers with his invention of the ultimate detective, Sherlock Holmes, completely altering the crime-fiction genre of the late 19th century. As well as this, he was a pioneering sportsman, a doctor of medicine, and champion of the underdog,...

Julie de Gloumeline aka Madam Home was D. D. Homes second wife; they were married in 1871. This book was originally published in 1877 and contains Madam Homes memoirs of his life.Homes letters and diaries are a Whos Who of 19th Century society. His autobiography Incidents in My Life - Part One which...

During his 50 years of psychical research, Sir William Fletcher Barrett (February 10, 1884 May 26, 1925) observed many types of phenomena. In his reminiscences, read at a private meeting of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on June 17, 1924, less than a year before his death, Barrett said: ...

We all grow up somewhere. No two families are the same, but everyone experiences them in some way. What everyone doesn't do, however, is consider the effect of these experiences on the person they become. This lack of awareness can have significant consequences in their future relationships in the world.Forsaking...