This short story collection is a posthumous parting gift from Ruiz Zafón to his millions of fans. With this historical novel full of relevance for our times, Blakemore makes it clear that the witch hunt isn’t a thing of the past. Her narrator, 19-year-old Rebecca West, becomes one of the accused and it’s her deft commentary on the patriarchy, balancing wit and anger, fear and suspicion, which makes this debut such a joy. The Manningtree Witchesīlakemore has previously published two collections of poetry and it shows the way in which she makes this award-winning tale of witch trials in 17th-century Essex sing with vivid and sensual language is remarkable. If Barnes has solutions, they are bound up in societal change and education rather than acts such as taking the knee.
Rather, they just allow us not to hear it for two hours. He argues, for example, that all the initiatives to prevent racial abuse in UK football stadiums don’t stop racism as a conscious or unconscious act. The adjective in the title of John Barnes’s treatise is apt this book certainly feels uncomfortable, but important, too.
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