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Witch wood

Buchan knew that you can't buck the consequences of your actions, and that your life is what you make of it. Perhaps his peculiarly Scottish combination of Romanticism and Calvinism - daring living and high thinking - is due to return to fashion' - The Independent Magazine Buchan's favourite of all his novels, ""Witch Wood"" deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability. The book is set in the terrifying times of the first half of the seventeenth century when the Church of Scotland unleashed a wave of cruelty and intolerance. Minister Sempill witnesses devil wo.

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  • "David Semphill, a newly ordained priest of the Church of Scotland, arrives in an isolated valley to minister to a congregation that also belongs to a witch's coven."
  • "Buchan knew that you can't buck the consequences of your actions, and that your life is what you make of it. Perhaps his peculiarly Scottish combination of Romanticism and Calvinism - daring living and high thinking - is due to return to fashion' - The Independent Magazine Buchan's favourite of all his novels, ""Witch Wood"" deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability. The book is set in the terrifying times of the first half of the seventeenth century when the Church of Scotland unleashed a wave of cruelty and intolerance. Minister Sempill witnesses devil wo."@en
  • "Set amidst the religious struggles of the 17th century, this is the story of a young minister's return to the town of his birth. There he finds a coven of Satan worshippers and falls deeply in love with one of their victims in a struggle for right and wrong."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fantastic fiction"@en
  • "Fantastic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "History"
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  • "Fantasy fiction"

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  • "Witchwood"
  • "Witch wood"
  • "Witch wood"@en
  • "[Witch Wood.]"
  • "Witch Wood : by John Buchan"@en
  • "Witch wood : a novel"
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  • "Witch Wood"
  • "Witch Wood /John Buchan"

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