Magic Books

Books for Aspiring Stage Magicians: Your Essential Reading List

Books for Aspiring Stage Magicians: Your Essent...

Most beginner magicians spend their first year trying to learn as many tricks as possible. They hoover up YouTube tutorials, download PDFs, and collect flourishes they'll probably never use. Then...

Books for Aspiring Stage Magicians: Your Essent...

Most beginner magicians spend their first year trying to learn as many tricks as possible. They hoover up YouTube tutorials, download PDFs, and collect flourishes they'll probably never use. Then...

Exploring Modern Magic Theory: Notable Books and Authors

Exploring Modern Magic Theory: Notable Books an...

Most magicians will tell you they learned the most from a book. Not the one that taught them their first card force, but the one that made them realise why...

Exploring Modern Magic Theory: Notable Books an...

Most magicians will tell you they learned the most from a book. Not the one that taught them their first card force, but the one that made them realise why...

Building a Masterful Magic Book Library: Essentials and Beyond

Building a Masterful Magic Book Library: Essent...

There's a particular kind of magician's bookshelf that stops people in their tracks. Not because it's organised by colour (though points for that), but because every spine on it represents...

Building a Masterful Magic Book Library: Essent...

There's a particular kind of magician's bookshelf that stops people in their tracks. Not because it's organised by colour (though points for that), but because every spine on it represents...

How Historical Magic Books Shape Modern Performances

How Historical Magic Books Shape Modern Perform...

There's a magician performing tonight who has never heard of Reginald Scot, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin or S.W. Erdnase. He's about to reinvent the wheel — badly — and wonder why his...

How Historical Magic Books Shape Modern Perform...

There's a magician performing tonight who has never heard of Reginald Scot, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin or S.W. Erdnase. He's about to reinvent the wheel — badly — and wonder why his...

Instructional Books for Mastering Mentalism Techniques

Instructional Books for Mastering Mentalism Tec...

Most people who want to learn mentalism make the same mistake: they go looking for secrets. A method here, a technique there, stitched together from forum posts and YouTube comments....

Instructional Books for Mastering Mentalism Tec...

Most people who want to learn mentalism make the same mistake: they go looking for secrets. A method here, a technique there, stitched together from forum posts and YouTube comments....

Magic Theory Books to Deepen Your Understanding of Illusions

Magic Theory Books to Deepen Your Understanding...

Most magicians read to collect tricks. They work through a book cover to cover, mark up the effects they want to learn, and shelve it the moment the last method...

Magic Theory Books to Deepen Your Understanding...

Most magicians read to collect tricks. They work through a book cover to cover, mark up the effects they want to learn, and shelve it the moment the last method...