Monoray signs How to Kill a Witch from human rights lawyer Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi

Monoray has signed How to Kill a Witch: A Guide for the Patriarchy, from human rights lawyer Claire Mitchell KC and writer Zoe Venditozzi. 

Publisher Jake Lingwood acquired world all-language, publishing, dramatic and documentary rights, from James Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates. The book will be published on 15th May 2025. 

Founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign, Mitchell and Venditozzi have created a "compelling and detailed investigation into the historic persecution of women as witches". How to Kill a Witch explores why the witch trials in Scotland "exploded" from the 1500s onwards, breaking down how witches were identified, the accusation, torture, trial and execution. The book also contains testimonies from Marion Gibson, Malcolm Gaskill and Liv Helene Willumsen as well as confessions, witness accounts and the documents that set the legal precedent for the trial. Lingwood called it a "highly readable and at times shocking book that gives us a much-needed reality check on just what it meant to be accused as a witch". 

Mitchell and Venditozzi said: "We’ve written this book to remember the history of women accused as witches and to highlight that where there is unchecked patriarchal power it ends very badly for women. With a rise worldwide in witchcraft accusations, rolling back on women’s rights and persecution of other minority and vulnerable groups, there are more red flags than all the Handmaids’ gowns stitched together. Now is the time to reflect on our history, so that we don’t repeat it. Again."