Hex - Darkland Tales

From the multi-award-winning, former Granta Best Young British Novelist, Jenni Fagan tells the story of Geillis Duncan, a teenage girl caught up in the sixteenth century witch trials in the Scottish coastal town of North Berwick.

About the author

Dr Jenni Fagan is an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter. After the publication of her debut novel, The Panopticon, Jenni was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She has been on lists including the Desmond Elliott Prize, James Tait Black, Sunday Times Short Story Prize and the BBC International Story Prize. The Sunlight Pilgrims saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. Her third novel Luckenbooth was praised in The New York Times Book Review, who named her The Patron Saint of Literary Street Urchins. In 2022, Polygon published her most recent novel, Hex, and The Bone Library, a poetry collection written during her time as a Writer in Residence at the Dick Vet Bone Library. In 2024, her memoir Ootlin is due to be published, as is her seventh poetry collection A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block. Fagan recently wrote two hundred poems for a collectors book called Heart of the Spirit, celebrating 200 years of The Macallan whisky.

Summary

From the multi-award-winning, former Granta Best Young British Novelist, Jenni Fagan tells the story of Geillis Duncan, a teenage girl caught up in the sixteenth century witch trials in the Scottish coastal town of North Berwick.

Product details

• Authors: Jenni Fagan, Fagan Jenni
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781846975684
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-568-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Darkland Tales
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft, Central Scotland, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Folklore studies / Study of myth, Witchcraft / Witches