The Shetland Witch
by Kate Macdonaldin ⚔ Fiction
The Shetland Witch
About the Substack
The Shetland Witch is a novel about witches and modern Shetland, serialised in 1000-word episodes each week. Come for the magic and the landscape, stay for the archaeology and the mythic entities. Now available as an ebook and in print!
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- You'll get the whole of The Shetland Witch from beginning to end
Paid Subcription Benefits
- You'll get the two novellas (In Achaea, and Mrs Sinclair and the Haa) as well as all of The Shetland Witch
- My grateful thanks
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About Kate Macdonald
Writer. Publisher but not of the things that I write. Literary historian. Fashion follower since 1973 when my mum put me into green and white checked flares. Huge fan of chocolate. From NE Scotland, now living in mid-west England. Mixed accent.
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