Cryptic

CrypticBooks can change the world. They can influence, entertain, transport, and enlighten. But across the centuries, authors have disguised their work with codes and ciphers, secret scripts and magical signs. What made these authors decide to keep their writings secret? What were they trying to hide? Garry J. Shaw tells the stories of nine puzzling European texts. Shaw explores the unknown alphabet of the nun Hildegard of Bingen; the enciphered manuscripts

and lovers come and go like the seasons

of male friendships forged

Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming

is set entirely on and around a remote mountain lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst the breathtakingly beautiful landscape

Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English

nostalgic and dryly witty collection that celebrates the companionship of marriage

Kimberly Fain and Alan Taylor

One time pressing on 140g unique blended recycled vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner

His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products

the world has fallen in love with the joyfully casual Australian way of eating

Like A Prayer

and performing his own stylistic analysis of this and other works of art from the period