Ashes & Stones Signed Paperback
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description: This is the UK paperback edition with cover illustration by Iain Macarthur, individually signed by Allyson. shortlisted by the Royal Society of Literature for the Christopher Bland Prize a Waterstones Book of the Month published by Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton, 2023 292 pages Ashes and Stones is a personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and modern cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. We visit modern memorials, roadside shrines and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folklore and political fantasies. From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape. "...an incantational group biography...Shaw passes over centuries-old footsteps like fingers on Braille; the lilt of her voice on the page is lyrical magic." -- The New York Times "...atmospheric, scholarly – and gripping – Ashes & Stones... gives life to many of the women burned as witches in Scotland. Shocking and important – it made me realise this hasn’t been done before, nor have I questioned why until now." -- Laline Paull, author of Pod and The Bees "…attentive and reverant, grounded in place and presence…a book that listens as much as it tells." -- Charles Martin, bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us "Allyson Shaw has built a monument in words to the thousands persecuted as witches in Scotland. A fascinating and necessary book." -- Peter Ross, author of A Tomb with a View "Ashes & Stones is its own reminder of a dark period in Scotlands’s past, but also carries a warning for the present day…This is not the book you think it is, and it is all the better for it." -- Alistair Braidwood, Snack Magazine "This is a remarkable book alive with the beauty and terror of Scotland centuries earlier – as if the author reached out a hand and took the reader with her on that journey...The delicate balance between Allyson Shaw’s inner life and personal reasons for making the journey set against th…
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