WELCOME TO THE HYPATIA TRUST ONLINE BOOKSHOP
Hypatia Publications is a Cornwall based small press of academic, social history and reference books with many duplicate rare books from The Hypatia Trust collection.
From 2019 to 2022 Linda Cleary curated a Literary Fiction department for Hypatia Publications of which there have been four releases; the fourth and final publication of the curation, Whistling Jack, was released in May 2022.
Scroll down to discover the titles. You can purchase them online here, with free delivery in the UK, or download e-books or audiobooks on available titles. You can also purchase hard copies at our ‘Women in Word’ bookshop at 54 Chapel St, Penzance.
The Way Of Raku
The Way Of Raku
Here is the story of the Zen art of raku, rendered in the most personal terms by an artists solely practicing within this field of ceramics. The calm spirit, the naturalness, the essential beauty and strength of pottery made with raku techniques is explained simply in both philosophy and practice.
The author has culled skills and sympathies from raku practitioners in many lands, and brought them to bear on her own art. These are shared with the reader in honest and refreshing ways, impressive too for the fact that this book has been written in English, her second language. Now living and working in Cornwall, at Borah Studio, Lamorna, Christa-Maria Herrmann takes sustenance and inspiration from landscapes and seascapes surrounding her. From these she draws a natural and spiritual standard, which she then translates to her work. All of the studio pottery illustrated in this book is the work of the author.
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eBooks & Audiobooks
Invisible Borders
Linda Cleary
Invisible Borders, New Women's Writing from Cornwall is a collection of poetry and prose from 23 new and established voices responding to the theme of: The agenda of maps, the sense of exploration, personal and emotional inner landscapes and journeys, body as map, borders, stopping points (and absence of them).
Featuring the work of: Jacky Garratt, Vivienne Tregenza, Benigale Richards, Laura Sennen, Lucia Johns, Mary Charnley, Faye Wilson, Diana Dixon, Jude Brickhill, Rupam Baoni, Vicki Morley, Mary Oliver, Lou Sarabadzic, Katrina Naomi, Penelope Shuttle, Abigail Elizabeth Ottley, Alice Kavounas, Pascale Petit, Natasha Carthew, Katherine Stansfield, Linda Cleary, Lesley Hale and Ella Frears.
For the eBook or audiobook versions of Invisible Borders, simply click on the book images to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
Born Between Crosses
Natasha Carthew
Born Between Crosses by Natasha Carthew is an incisive intersection of working class and nature writing. The lived experiences of women cleaners, care assistants, farm workers, factory workers, housewives and housemaids rendered here in Carthew’s vivid writing reveal what it really means to ‘get by’.
For the eBook, simply click on the book image to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
chronicles of entering my body
Rupam Baoni
chronicles of entering my body is a collection of astonishingly sublime work that lets the reader into quiet intimacies whilst revelling in a poetic expansion of natural force.
These thirty poems erupt and dance into our consciousness, sequenced within five chapters – each with one of the author's own paintings at its mouth.
The title poem, also represented as a chapter title, comes to us with its remarkable lines and questions such as: 'I’m made of fire now and you’re wind; but still, tell me the chronicles of your entering my body, tell me how your entering is silent as non-entering in all its entirety'. Such profound and philosophical inquiries continue through the collection along with explorations of the body and the natural world. One's journey through the work brings encounters with love, death, tightrope walkers, the vulnerability of flesh, dementia, dialogues with trees, the bonds between mothers and daughters, Beethoven's symphonies, prayers to the earth and more.
Rupam Baoni is a poet of eloquent power, delivering her potency into your hands.
For the eBook, simply click on the book image to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
King Arthur's Wood
King Arthur's Wood is a children's book written and illustrated by Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes. It was first printed in 1904 with a limited print-run of 350 copies. This wonderful Arthurian fairy tale has been carefully digitised, and converted into an interactive book so that children young and old may enjoy this magical story once again.
It is exclusively available on iPad through the iBookstore and contains scanned pages to preserve the original layout and typeface. Smaller illustrations can be tapped to view full screen, and there is an extra, interactive, gallery of illustrations at the end of the book for you to explore and enjoy.