The shelves
Malcolm’s Library
The books he has written, and the books that wrote him. Wander the shelves the way you would on a visit to the study — take a volume down, see where it surfaces across the rest of the site, and find a copy of your own.
On the desk just now
Silex Scintillans
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Henry Vaughan
Currently open
Silex Scintillans
Henry Vaughan
“I saw eternity the other night.” The book at Malcolm’s elbow this season — what he’s reading from, and reading by. [ placeholder note ]
Written by Malcolm
All his booksHis own collections and prose. Each opens to a full book page — the anthologies as their own church year, the narratives as a voyage.
Sounding the Seasons
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Malcolm Guite
Sounding the Seasons
2012
Anthology
The Singing Bowl
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Malcolm Guite
The Singing Bowl
2013
Collected poems
Waiting on the Word
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Malcolm Guite
Waiting on the Word
2015
Anthology · Advent
Mariner
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Malcolm Guite
Mariner
2017
Narrative
After Prayer
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Malcolm Guite
After Prayer
2021
Sonnets
Lifting the Veil
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Malcolm Guite
Lifting the Veil
2021
Prose
David’s Crown
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Malcolm Guite
David’s Crown
2021
Sonnets · the Psalms
Forthcoming
Merlin’s Isle
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Malcolm Guite
Merlin’s Isle
March 2026 · vol. 1
Arthurian epic
The shelves
Browse every shelfThe books that wrote him — the company he keeps. Take a spine down to see where that book and its author surface across the whole site.
The Inklings
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The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
On Fairy-Stories
The Chronicles of Narnia
Till We Have Faces
Phantastes
Lilith
The Place of the Lion
Poetic Diction
The Inklings
The Metaphysicals
Browse this shelf
The Temple
Holy Sonnets
Silex Scintillans
Centuries of Meditations
The Metaphysical Poets
Devotions
The Flaming Heart
Romantics & visionaries
Browse this shelf
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Biographia Literaria
The Prelude
Songs of Innocence & Experience
The Complete Keats
Jerusalem
Kubla Khan
Story, myth & faerie
Browse this shelf
The Faerie Queene
Le Morte d’Arthur
The Divine Comedy
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
The Mabinogion
At the Back of the North Wind
Lately taken down
In the library videosBooks read from in recent episodes of A Spell in the Library — the shelf and the screen, kept in step.
Book of Common Prayer, 1791
The Lord of the Rings
Phantastes
The Singing Bowl
