Books
The Books.
Two autobiographies of one life, written thirty-two years apart by the same hand. The earlier from inside the founding decade; the later from a generation on.
The later book
Fire Child, a life.
- Format
- Memoir · autobiography
- First published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Mandrake of Oxford
Written more than thirty years after Witch Queen. The autobiographical account, in Maxine's own voice, from childhood through the founding years and into the decades that followed Alex's death.
The book is the canonical source for the chronology of her life and is referenced throughout the biographical sections of this site.
An indispensable record. The first first-person account of how the Alexandrian tradition was actually built, from the woman who built it.
The Cauldron
The earlier book
Maxine, the Witch Queen.
- Format
- Autobiography · ghostwritten
- Originally
- 1976
- Publisher
- Star Books
The earlier of the two autobiographical books, written closer to the events themselves and ghostwritten. Out of print as a first edition; second-hand copies circulate.
Read alongside Fire Child, it gives two different vantage points on the same decade.
Other writings live in the diary.
Maxine's shorter pieces, reflections, history, occasional essays, are kept in the diary on this site rather than between covers. They are added to as new pieces arrive.
Open the diary →