Brought together for the first time in one volume, The Talliston Grimoire: The Magical Guidebook to Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home explores the myth, magic and lifestyle of Talliston House & Gardens.
 
Discover how this remarkable imaginary world was brought to life on an unmissable journey through thirteen spectacular spaces where mythology, world heritage and fantasy meet reality.
 
The Talliston Grimoire is a complete and comprehensive guidebook to “Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home” (The Times). It charts the 25-year transformation of the UK’s most ordinary house into an extraordinary labyrinth of rooms, plus charts its thirteen rooms, revelations of its moon calendar and ritual year, recipes from its exotic locations and how to bring magic and mystery into your own home, life and world to live healthily, happily and in harmony.
 
Join author, creator and wizard John Tarrow as he takes you through the quarter-century project to utterly transform the UK’s most ordinary house, reveals how this unique interior design masterpiece was conceived, sourced and accomplished, his thoughts and ideas about magical living, a full almanack of days, how to create your own ritual year and a globetrotting culinary journey around the times and places of the house and gardens.
 
Mixing fact, fiction and folklore, the grimoire takes readers into the mind of its creator, tracking every step of the incredible twenty-five-year journey to conceive and build this unimaginable labyrinth of thirteen extraordinary rooms, captured inside the UK’s most ordinary house.
 
Hardcover : 425 pages
Dimensions : 29.7 x 21 x 5 cm (A4 format portrait)
Published : Autumn 2025
Language: : English
© Cover art: Patrick Knowles.