Book of the Day

70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now.

The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time…

The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In The Witch, historian Ronald Hutton sets the European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft.

Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord… 1743.