Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript’s secrets. They believe that it contains important clues about the creation and future of creatures and desperately want to know how Diana, an unskilled witch, was able to get her hands on the elusive volume.Ĭhief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.Īfter Diana returns the book, it becomes clear that creatures (classified as witches, daemons, and vampires) are after its secrets. Yale historian Diana Bishop may be descended from a long line of witches (Bishops and Proctors, yes, from the Salem Witch Trials), but she wants no part of her magical inheritance. The first book was published in 2011, and the second book Shadow of Night was published in July 2012, with the final volume, The Book of Life, released in July, 2014. A Discovery of Witches is the first novel in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, which weaves together elements of science, history, romance, and fantasy.

Praise for Deborah Harkness:'Rich, thrilling. Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590.īut they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Now the coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened. When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past. In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling.ĭiana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Diana Gabaldon and J. *Read the novel Season 2 is based on.*Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS trilogy, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. *Now a major Sky TV series, A Discovery of Witches Season 2.*

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