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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest

'Bold, surreal, feminist & ferociously funny' Service95
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'You're holding a torpedo of a book in your hand. Take a seat and get comfortable. This novel's energy, humour and rebel spirit will awaken your mind and change your way of thinking' Olga Tokarczuk Anna Frenza hates the tyrannical tree huggers and the idiotic eco-warriors;... Read More
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A jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she's filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, an act that spirals her through history until she's united with a centuries-old coven of revolutionary women.

A jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she's filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, an act that spirals her through history until she's united with a centuries-old coven of revolutionary women.

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'You're holding a torpedo of a book in your hand. Take a seat and get comfortable. This novel's energy, humour and rebel spirit will awaken your mind and change your way of thinking' Olga Tokarczuk

Anna Frenza hates the tyrannical tree huggers and the idiotic eco-warriors; after all, she's the CEO of Poland's biggest oil company. But then she finds herself in a trance, sleepwalking into the woods and making love to a tree, manically, all caught on camera. Her career ends, and in the fallout, she discovers her husband's disturbing secret. Her mind splinters, and whether by delusion or possession of spirit, she finds herself in a medieval province ruled by the Catholic Church.

Deep in the past, Anna falls in with Mathilde Spalt, leader of the Earthen Onesβ€”a congregation of women who live in the woods and reject all patriarchy, instead engaging in ecstatic, sensuous worship of Mother Earthβ€”and learns to love the forest... until the Church decides to fell the forest and all the women within it.

Bold and entirely unexpected, Hexes of the Deadwood Forest is a collective rebellion and a collective orgasm, the death knell to the elevation of the erect. Take hold of your seat; patriarchy is coming to an end.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804443910

Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Footnote Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Translated by Scotia Gilroy

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Agnieszka Szpila (Author)
Agnieszka Szpila is one of Poland's most critically acclaimed, bestselling, and transgressive writers. The Polish edition of Hexes of the Deadwood Forest was longlisted for the Nike Award, the country's premier literary award, and will be published in at least nine countries around the world.

Scotia Gilroy (Translator)
Scotia Gilroy is a Canadian writer and translator of Polish literature. She holds a First Class Honours degree in English literature from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and a diploma in Polish language and literature from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Scotia was shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize in 2022. She is an alumna of the National Centre for Writing's Emerging Translator Mentorship in Norwich, and the BCLT's summer school for literary translators.

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