214pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022
Novel set in Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk in 1662, when two widows are charged with acts of witchcraft. Philosopher, natural scientist, logician and medical doctor Dr Thomas Browne accepts the role of both inquisitor and witness in one of England's last witch trials.
Mark Winkler is the author of the novels An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything), Wasted, The Safest Place You Know, Theo & Flora and Due South of Copenhagen.