Which Witch?

‘And remember,’ he said, throwing out his arms, ‘that what I am looking for is power, wickedness and evil. Darkness is All!’

Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North, is searching for a monstrous witch with the darkest powers and is holding a sorcery competition to discover which witch is the most fiendish. Glamorous Madame Olympia conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats, while Belladonna, the white witch, desperately wants to be a wicked enchantress, but only manages to produce flowers, not snakes. Can she become more devilish than all the other witches?

Which Witch? is a brilliantly witty tale of magic and marriage by Eva Ibbotson, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.