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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529034066 | ISBN 10: 152903406x
"What remains of the witch hunts? A stubborn misogyny, which still tints the way our societies look at single women, childless women, aging women, or quite simply, free women... Today more than ever, witches tell us about our world and lead the way." ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398508507 | ISBN 10: 1398508500
Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear ‘witch-hunt’ in today’s media, and the misogyny t ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780141991481 | ISBN 10: 0141991488
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE* *A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times 'Simply one of the best history books I have ever rea ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785766145 | ISBN 10: 1785766147
The Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life... Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474602266 | ISBN 10: 1474602266
‘An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner … Schiff’s writing is to die for’ THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a m ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099549147 | ISBN 10: 009954914x
September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England’s great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is ‘tormented’ with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon th ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780143106180 | ISBN 10: 014310618x
A chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America. From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780306821202 | ISBN 10: 0306821206
The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women. Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trial ... more
View book details£7.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781874181781 | ISBN 10: 1874181780
Thomas Potts’ famous account of the Pendle witch trials of 1612 is the only original source of information about the events, and in this excellent new version historian Robert Poole makes the text accessible and useable for twenty-first century reade ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781874181774 | ISBN 10: 1874181772
This excellent little book is a wonderful introduction to the story of the Pendle witch trials of 1612. Â In a very lively and readable style, Christine Goodier provides a who's who of the events, as well as an interesting angle on the trials themsel ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719561214 | ISBN 10: 0719561213
By the Spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators were detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex two obscure gentlemen began interrogating wo ... more
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