For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Magic & Witchcraft

August 2017 Issue

Tracy Borman

Spellbound

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

By Ronald Hutton

August 1994 Issue

Randy Lee Cutler

Tales of Perjury

Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

By Bernard Rosenthal

April 1993 Issue

David V Barrett

An Unholy Alliance

At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today

By John Parker

November 2016 Issue

Justin Beplate

Coming out of the Coffin

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

By David J Skal

March 1992 Issue

Ann Geneva

Nancy Reagan was Following an Ancient Tradition

Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages

By Hilary M Carey

March 2016 Issue

John Banville

Sympathy for the Bedevilled

The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother

By Ulinka Rublack

December 2015 Issue

Kevin Jackson

Bewitched

The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By Brian Copenhaver (ed) Translated by Brian Copenhaver

February 2004 Issue

Charlie Campbell

Could It Be Magic?

The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: The Biography of a Legend

By Peter Lamont

February 2009 Issue

Elspeth Barker

Aurochs and Angels

The Natural History of Unicorns

By Chris Lavers

November 2008 Issue

Anne Somerset

Trust Not the Physician

The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

By Alec Ryrie

August 2013 Issue

Anne Somerset

Years of Magical Thinking

Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction in Jacobean England

By Tracy Borman