Alan Shaxon – The Sophisticated Sorcerer by Alan Shaxon, Scott Penrose, Stephen Short

This is a magic book. Not only does it contain detailed workings of the tricks that Alan used throughout half a century of performing magic professionally, but it also reveals Alan’s constant sense of wonder at his world. In my experience of him, he never tired of travelling and never tired of being with magicians. He enjoyed the practical things of life and was as adept tinkering under the bonnet of a car as he was on the internet when trying to locate a source of Edwardian gas mantles or old Polaroid cameras and films, both items which he used regularly when performing. (read more)