The Wax Child is a Waterstones Book of the Month

The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish into English by Martin Aitken, has been selected as the Fiction Book of the Month for October 2026 at Waterstones. 

Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today: a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.

Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K.Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. The Wax Child was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.

The paperback edition of The Wax Child was published in the UK by Viking on 24th September. Get your copy here.