Hexes of the Deadwood Forest: 'Bold, surreal, feminist & ferociously funny' Service95

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Agnieszka Szpila Scotia Gilroy

Hexes of the Deadwood Forest

Name: Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
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ISBN: 9781804443972

'Bold, surreal, feminist & ferociously funny' Service95

Agnieszka Szpila, Scotia Gilroy

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Miscellaneous
02 June 2026

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Fiction in translation; Political activism

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 medieval province ruled by the Catholic Church.

Deep in the past, Anna falls in with Mathilde Spalt, leader of the Earthen Ones-a congregation of women who live in the woods and reject all patriarchy, instead engaging in ecstatic, sensuous worship of Mother Earth 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.

By: Agnieszka Szpila
Translated by: Scotia Gilroy
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9781804443972
ISBN 10: 1804443972
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.