BURNINGS (PB)

Inspired by the incredible true story of the North Berwick witch trials that set 16th-century Scotland and Denmark alight, The Burnings is a bewitching debut novel by a multi-award winning new star of historical fiction. 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries "witch", no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of King James VI and Princess Anna of Denmark brings Geillis and Margareta together, everything they supposed about good, evil, men, and women, is cast in a strange and brilliant new light.