Hex

'A rage-fuelled thunderbolt... but this punchy, painful novel is no sermon: Fagan cultivates the occult energy swirling around her themes, even as she explodes the myths that enables male violence' * Daily Mail * 'Exceptional... I'm still reeling from it, it is devastating..."the purest light attracts the most impenetrable darkness" - that line just resonates and resonates... a stunning book, thank you for this' * BBC Radio Scotland * 'This series has already produced two works of note and distinction. It raises the question - if a country cannot re-tell its history, will it be stuck forever in aspic and condemned to be nothing more than a shortbread tin illustration? Hex and Rizzio are showing the way towards a reckoning, and about time too' -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday * 'Hex, for a book about such trauma and agony, is a crisp, clear book... elegant and angry in equal measure' * The Scotsman * 'Hex is a powerful, fictional retelling of the North Berwick witch trials from Jenni Fagan' -- Lynsey May * The List * 'Fagan's writing is wild and exciting... [she] stirs up a powerful brew with her magical fable' -- Dani Garavelli * Herald * 'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years' -- Irvine Welsh '[an] exhilarating, humbling homage to Geillis Duncan' -- Sam Baker '[a] soulful, tender, powerfully moving retelling of the last days of Geillis Duncan' -- Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation 'Unsurprisingly brilliant, a feminist warcry from one century to another as we spend the night with a young woman about to be slowly hanged as a witch. Beautiful, moving writing' -- Sarah Pinborough, Sunday Times #1 and New York Times Bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 'A powerful and compelling short novel' * Undiscovered Scotland * 'Hex is stunning, so powerful... Beautiful work!' -- Salena Godden, author of Mrs Death Misses Death 'I devoured Hex and absolutely adored it. I mean, what a genuinely astonishing novel; gorgeous, heart-breaking' * Waterstones, West End Edinburgh * 'the magical and the realism are always in perfect balance... Hex is both a timely and timeless publication' -- Alistair Braidwood * The Skinny * 'A perfect encapsulation of everything I love about Jenni's work - brilliantly real characters, shot through with feminist anger, word choice to make you shiver, & that knack of taking the road least expected' -- Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby Queen 'Powerfully conjures a meeting across the centuries between Geillis Duncan, a young girl on the night before her execution for witchcraft in 1591, and Iris, a contemporary witch' -- Sally McDonald * Sunday Post * 'this book is magnificent. I cannot think of a voice, or imagination, like Jenni Fagan's' -- Terri White (journalist and author) 'Really felt Jenni Fagan's anger coming off the page... brilliant' * Waterstones Leicester * 'An 'i' Recommended Read' * i'News * 'A fascinating and powerful book about the history and traumas of Scottish women' * Mainstreet Trading * 'It's an exemplar of the form, a book that tells its story across space and time from a writer who is fully engaged with both subject and style' * Snack Magazine,10 Best Scottish Books of 2022 * 'Stunning book. Read this in one sitting on a Sunday morning. It's 100 pages make such an impact. Sublime writing' * GoodReads FIVE STAR REVIEW * 'This novel sent chills right through my bones' * Lizzy's Literary Life, Blog * 'A poignant new perspective on Scotland's notorious North Berwick witch trials' * Product Magazine * 'Hex is fantastic!' -- Denise Mina 'Packs a mighty punch and has lots of important messages about misogyny, prejudice, abuse and inaction which was rife in the sixteenth century and still permeates modern lives' * Linger Longer with Books * 'Hex is excellent and everyone should read it' * Kamila Shamsie * 'Visceral, damning, shimmering with literal prowess and prose all under the heady gu

Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon (2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016, followed by There's a Witch in the Word Machine (2018).