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The Ruin of All Witches : Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill (Paperback) ✓ In Stock

The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders. In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall. The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. Drawing on uniquely rich, previously neglected source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to life a New World existence steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in curses and enchantments, and precariously balanced between life and death. Through the gripping micro-history of a family tragedy, we glimpse an entire society caught in agonized transition between supernatural obsessions and the age of enlightenment. We see, in short, the birth of the modern world. 'The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing ... thought-provoking and absorbing' Hilary Mantel. ISBN 9780141991481

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Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers 1982-2025 by Steve Pyke (Hardcover) ✓ In Stock

Featuring 100 captivating portraits of many of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers, alongside conversations with each on their writing life, Scribendi is a landmark book of portraits of Irish writers by internationally renowned photographer Steve Pyke. ‘I come from the English Midlands, but I became a photographer in Ireland. I made my first portraits in Dublin in the early 1980s. It was immediately apparent to me then how important Irish writers are to their country, in a way I never saw in England or elsewhere. One of my earliest portrait sessions was in 1983, with the writer Neil Jordan in my first studio in London. I’ve gone on for the subsequent forty years photographing the Irish writers whose books have excited me. Early sitters include Seamus Heaney, Edna O’Brien and John McGahern. More recent trips have led me to the next generation, such writers as Anne Enright, Kevin Barry and Louise Kennedy. I photographed these people because I had read their books and admired and wanted to meet them, and also to make a record for posterity. Their faces can bring to others something of the feeling and way of thinking behind their words.’ Steve Pyke is one of the world’s most renowned portrait photographers, has published 10 books to date, including the critically acclaimed novel I Could Read the Sky with Timothy O’Grady, and has worked among many other roles, as resident portrait photographer for The New Yorker from 2004-2014.

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Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers 1982-2025 by Steve Pyke (Hardcover)

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Six Wicked Reasons by Jo Spain ✓ In Stock
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Six Wicked Reasons by Jo Spain

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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins ✓ In Stock
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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

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A Talented Man by Henrietta McKervey ✓ In Stock
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A Talented Man by Henrietta McKervey

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Someone We Know by Shari Lapena ✓ In Stock
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Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

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