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Witch Wood

By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
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Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.

Originally published in 1927.

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This story is really well read, though the Scots dialect is a bit difficult, but you get the gist of it. The reader is clear and brings out the drama wonderfully. Well done!

A brilliant story

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Most of the extensive dialogue in this book takes place in Scots. Unfortunately, the narrator has no background with this language and mispronounces most of its words. I was left wondering why you'd commission someone with no experience of Scots to read this, and why none of the many errors he makes were caught in the editing process.

Let down by narrator with no knowledge of Scots

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