Books published by Local Legend

Pam Brittan has been a clairvoyant medium for over thirty years and is well known throughout the UK for her wealth of spiritual knowledge and down-to-earth teaching style. She describes herself as "an ordinary woman blessed with an extraordinary gift". Pam has tirelessly shared this gift - despite many personal difficulties - through one-to-one readings and workshops, and by serving Spiritualist churches, bringing comfort and understanding to a great number of people along the way. She has created a spiritual development college course whilst also featuring on several radio shows related to the paranormal. This book tells the story of her incredible life challenges and gives proofs of our survival after death. Her purpose in writing it is to inspire people to realise that we can all develop our own innate psychic abilities. Even though life offers us many tests, a trust in Spirit will always guide us on the right path. Pam is the very embodiment of this philosophy.

If you've lost the joy in your life, this book has been written for you. Perhaps you're not sure where you're going or you've been shaken by a life-changing event. Don't be a victim of circumstances, instead treat them as blessings in disguise and as a catalyst for positive change. Here are nearly two hundred suggestions for activities sure to lift your spirits or even change your life entirely… Every entry is an idea to pursue, a new project to undertake or a theme for meditation. Deeply researched, this is a sequel to the brilliant Odd Days of Heaven by the same author.

This is Peter Walker's fifth collection of poetry, mature and deeply perceptive of the nature of being human in this wonderful natural world. As a teacher and priest, Walker is acutely aware of both the triumphs and the weaknesses of our spirituality. He expresses the full range of the spirit with sensitivity and often with searing, self-deprecating wit. This is a collection that the reader will want to return to again and again, each time perceiving something new in a certain pause or the choice of a precise word. Deserved winner of the Local Legend national Spiritual Writing Competition.

Since the beginning of human history, our ancestral roots and those of the hedgerows have been intimately entangled. Now, often forgotten amongst the hedgerows, the 'wild weeds' still offer amazing medicinal opportunities, delicious sources of food and fascinating legends of our past. Many of the secrets of our history lie hidden in the stories of these plants. Our ancestors, living in harmony with the cycles of nature, knew how to prepare wild food, prepare remedies, make protective talismans and so much more. But we have lost our connection with the magic of nature… In this fascinating and unique book, richly illustrated, Jo Dunbar shows us what we so often miss in the beauty all around us. We learn here which plants to pick (or avoid!) and how to use them for ourselves. And woven in with this are the ancient stories and folklore of the countryside, firing our imagination and helping us to communicate in a real way with our natural environment.Jo has been practising as a medical herbalist since 1999 and is the founder of Botanica Medica Herbal Apothecary. It was through growing and collecting the herbs for her apothecaries that she developed a personal relationship with hedgerow plants and trees. This love of nature led her also to follow the Druidic path, honouring all lifeforms on Earth as well as the cycles of the year.Jo grew up in South Africa where she first studied horticulture and worked with Xhosa men who taught her about indigenous plants and how they are used magically and medically. She now lives in Hampshire, England, and is the author of How to Cope Successfully with Candida (Wellhouse Publishing Ltd, 2003) and the self-published Recovering from Stress, Burn Out and Fatigue.