Books by Margaret Meyer
Margaret Meyer has been a journalist, editor and publisher, and was for five years the British Council’s Director of Literature. Her writing includes essays, flash fiction and short stories. Her 2023 debut novel, The Witching Tide, was inspired by the events of the East Anglian witch hunt of 1645-7 and is dedicated to the more than 100 innocent women who lost their lives. An international bestseller, The Witching Tide was shortlisted for the 2023 East Anglian Book Award and named as one of that year’s best historical novels by Waterstones, The Sunday Times, NPR and The New York Times.
Interviews with Margaret Meyer
The Best Novels about Witches and Witch Hunts, recommended by Margaret Meyer
The figure of the witch recurs across cultures and time periods, and remains a source of fascination even today. Here, Margaret Meyer—author of The Witching Tide, an acclaimed historical novel inspired by a notorious English witch hunt—recommends five brilliant fiction books about witches, and explains how the witch serves as a symbol of female power in a patriarchal society.
