The Children Of New Forest

?MAGICAL READS? "Some books wait to be bought. Others seem to wait for us. They sleep beneath dust and faded cloth, between forgotten printings and foxed paper, carrying the perfume of another century: oak after rain, old rooms, yellowed paper, the faintest trace of someone else's life. A handwritten name. A date. A pressed flower. A sentence marked in pencil by a hand that disappeared long ago. I have always been drawn to what time leaves behind: objects that have been loved, lost, overlooked, carried, and somehow survived. I am Alice, a poet, a collector, and the woman behind Magical Reads. I have never wanted to separate life from art. For me, poetry is not confined to a page. It is in the books I gather, the clothes I wear, the rooms I make, and the objects I choose to keep. Flowers drying between pages. A ribbon around an old volume. A beautiful table set for no reason. A walk because the light is extraordinary. A life composed with attention. This is the world from which Magical Reads was born: my literary cabinet, my collection of curiosities, my wandering through the margins of time. I find vintage books, forgotten writers, eccentric editions and literary oddities not because they are fashionable, but because they have presence. I collect the books that linger: the forgotten poem that follows me home, the peculiar volume that awakens a memory, the century-old novel that feels less like a discovery than a reunion. There is magic in holding something that has outlived its moment. A book can pass through a hundred years and still arrive warm with possibility. It can belong to a stranger and somehow become intimate. It can carry a name we will never know, a room we will never enter, a life we will never meet, and still leave something of that life inside our own. Old books are evidence that other people dreamed, were lonely, fell in love, lost people, waited for letters, stood beneath the same moon, and needed stories to make sense of being alive. Magical Reads is more than a bookshop. It is an extension of the way I see: literature, aesthetics, memory, beauty and chance. I am interested in living slowly, creating beauty without permission, dressing for oneself, candlelight and old perfume, poetry left open on a table, flowers beginning to fade, and beautiful things that make us feel more alive. Every book I choose carries something of my eye, my instinct, my imagination, my love of poetry, old-world beauty, forgotten stories, strange details and the melancholy of passing time. I don't want to sell you a book simply because it is old. I want to introduce you to one because it has presence: its cover catches the light, its pages feel like another weather, its story has remained awake, or it contains a sentence written for the person you are becoming. There is no hurry here. A quiet turning of pages. Dust in afternoon light. A hand resting on an old binding. A story discovered by accident, followed by the feeling that perhaps it was never an accident. Perhaps some objects have their own trajectories. Perhaps they move through the world until they reach the person who can see them. Perhaps books remember. Perhaps beauty remembers. That is the mystery I am interested in: not nostalgia for the past, but conversation with it; not collecting things to possess them, but allowing beautiful things to alter the way we live. A book can change a room. A room can change a morning. A morning can change a life. And a life, if we pay enough attention, can become a work of art. This is Magical Reads: my books, my poetry, my wandering, my way of looking at the world. A cabinet of literary curiosities for old souls, curious hearts and anyone who suspects that the ordinary world is stranger and more beautiful than we have been taught to believe. Come slowly. Look closely. Take your time. There are stories here that have been waiting a very long while. Perhaps one of them has been waiting for you." - Alice, Poet. Collector. Dreamer.

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If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.

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Statutory right to withdraw

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.

The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).

We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.

We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.

We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.

You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Magical Reads, Seaford, United Kingdom, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.

Exceptions to the right of withdrawal

The right of withdrawal does not apply to:

The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.

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Order quantity	14 to 45 business days	5 to 10 business days
First item	� 4.10	� 8.85

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