In this episode of Bookable Space we’re joined by Anna Caig. Anna reads from The Wise Witch of Orkney and answers three questions about writing place, writing history, and writing as repair. It’s an engaging discussion of research and craft.

About the Author:

Anna is a historical fiction author, and her debut novel is The Wise Witch of Orkney. Anna’s obsessed with the hidden voices of women and a compelling underdog story. Luckily, history offers plenty of these. She’s inspired by the glimpses into a woman’s life we get before the historical record moves onto something considered much more important.

About The Wise Witch of Orkney

1593, Scotland. King James VI launches a bloody witch hunt across the length and breadth of the country. But are the women he fears most already within his court?

Elspet is a spae-wife, a wise woman and healer from Orkney. Some might call her a witch. When the king's new bride, Anna of Denmark, summons her to deliver her baby and cast a binding spell over the child, Elspet is trapped between two impossible choices. She cannot refuse the queen, and she cannot be discovered by the king.

About the host

Yvonne Battle-Felton is an author, academic, and podcaster. Her debut, Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Not the Booker, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Winner of The Shirley Jackson Award, Curdle Creek is her second novel. Yvonne was a finalist in the Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Zora Award for Fiction, has been awarded the RSL Scriptorium Award, and lives in West Yorkshire, England. She aims to create a literary community bringing readers and writers together over words

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