An excerpt of #ashesandstones about Isobel Gowdie's subversive confessions appears in at Lapham’s quarterly Round Table online @ laphamsquarterly.org https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/go-devils-name
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Go in the Devil’s Name | Allyson Shaw

When Isobel Gowdie confessed to being a witch, she spun a subversive, magical tale for her interrogators.

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I’m off to Edinburgh today, speaking about Ashes and Stones at the Edinburgh International Book Festival tomorrow. I haven’t been on a plane in over six years. I’m nervous, but I’m looking forward to seeing friends and being a part of the exciting line up this year at the festival. This feels like yet another homecoming. 📸 Photo by Nicola Gadler, Unsplash.
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Marking 25 years on Southern Lord Earth's seminal first album Hex is on at the celebratory price of $1. I wrote #ashesandstones to this record. #Metal #dronemetal #doommetal #stonermetal (If anyone knows how to tag Southern Lord, Earth or Bandcamp on here, please let me know! ) #bandcamp #BandcampFriday #southernlord
The initial print run of #ashesandstones has sold out and gone into a second printing. Amazon.co.uk and Waterstones still have copies. New stock should be arriving soon everywhere else in the UK. (The book is coming out in the US later in the year.) #witchlit #witches #WitchesofMastodon #nonfiction #Histodons #ScottishFolklore #ScottishHistory #ScottishBook #Scotland
ASHES AND STONES by Allyson Shaw, read by Lucy Paterson - audiobook extract

'It's summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have ken this coast in all weathers: in the summer when it was as gentle as a lake and

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