STORMS EDGE: LIFE DEATH AND MAGIC/ ORKNEY (PB)

Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and labourers on the island of Sanday where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch. Merging his local experience with wider perspective, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has usually been treated as a mere footnote in most accounts, and invites us to think differently about key events of Scottish and British history. An exploration of politics, folklore and community memory, by the winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize for history writing.