Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy games Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book

Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse

witch trials have been twisted and transformed over the course of history and the lines between witch and witch-hunter blurred

creating the effect of a walk in the woods in which some strategic morsels are collected

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Juvelian is a villainess so universally hated that when she is accused of jealously poisoning the princess of the Ashet Empire

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy games Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original bookBlending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange