Book Review: Margaret Mayer's The Witching Tide casts an eye on the witch-hunts

"The book shows how witch-hunting was a source of income for many local people  — innkeepers, carpenters, gaolers and others — and of how whole communities became involved in one way or another."

Margaret Meyer. Image courtesy of Hachette UK.

• The Witching Tide 
• Margaret Meyer 
• Phoenix, £16.99