Deborah Harkness

Historian and witch Diana Bishop and her vampire scientist husband Matthew Clairmont return from a trip to the past still searching for the elusive alchemy tome Ashmole 782 in the final installment of the best-selling trilogy following Shadow of Night.

The Book of Life

*Now a major Sky original production* THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS trilogy. It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS trilogy. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire geneticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels... Five reasons to read A Discovery of Witches and the All Souls Trilogy 'Rich, thrilling ... A captivating and romantic ripping yarn' E L James 'Intelligent and off-the-wall ... irrestistible to Twilight fans' Sunday Times 'I could lose myself in here and never want to come out ... Utterly enchanting on every level' Manda Scott 'Exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache' Marie Claire 'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire ... an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy' Daily Mail

Now a major TV series (All Souls 1)

A Discovery of Witches

On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one, and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus's deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood. Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor -- the young employee at Sotheby's whom Marcus has fallen for -- is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. The shadows that Marcus believed he'd escaped centuries ago may return to haunt them both -- forever.

Time's Convert

The #1 New York Times-bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, book two of the All Souls Series. Look for the hit TV series “A Discovery of Witches,” streaming on AMC Plus, Sundance Now and Shudder. Season 2 premieres January 9, 2021! Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782--the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit--deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them. Together they find they must embark on a very different - and vastly more dangerous - journey. "A captivating and romantic ripping yarn,"** Shadow of Night confirms Deborah Harkness as a master storyteller, able to cast an "addictive tale of magic, mayhem and two lovers."**

A Novel

Shadow of Night

A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy—"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People). Look for the hit TV series “A Discovery of Witches,” streaming on AMC Plus, Sundance Now and Shudder. A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Lifecarried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion. In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich sources of inspiration behind her bewitching novels. She draws together synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and even the science behind creatures, magic, and alchemy--all with her signature historian's touch. Bursting with fascinating facts and dazzling artwork, this essential handbook is a must-have for longtime fans and eager newcomers alike.

The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life

The World of All Souls

A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, now available in a beautiful boxed set With more than two million copies sold in the United States, the novels of the number one New York Times–bestselling All Souls Trilogy have landed on all the major bestseller lists, garnered rave reviews, and spellbound legions of loyal fans. Now all three novels are available in an elegantly designed boxed set that’s perfect for fans and newcomers alike.

The All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series. Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past, and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.

The Black Bird Oracle

This exclusive ALL SOULS trilogy real-time reading guide brings to life the world created by Deborah Harkness in A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT, taking you through the auspicious dates of the story with exciting behind-the-scenes extra content. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. It began with A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. It continued with SHADOW OF NIGHT. Now, as THE BOOK OF LIFE has brought Deborah Harkness's stunning No.1 internationally bestselling trilogy to its finale, re-immerse yourself in the rich fantasy world she has created and enrich your experience of the heart-stopping conclusion.

The ALL SOULS Real-time Reading Companion

Num final de tarde de Setembro, quando a famosa historiadora de Yale, Diana Bishop, abre casualmente um misterioso manuscrito medieval alquímico há muito desaparecido, o submundo mágico de Oxford desperta. Vampiros, bruxas e demónios farão tudo para possuir o manuscrito que se crê conter poderes desconhecidos e pistas misteriosas sobre o passado e o futuro dos humanos e do mundo fantástico. Diana vê a sua pacata vida de investigadora invadida por um passado que sempre tentou esquecer: ela é a última descendente da família Bishop, uma longa e distinta linhagem de bruxas de Salem, marcada pela morte misteriosa dos pais quando era criança. E do meio do turbilhão de criaturas mágicas despertadas pela redescoberta do manuscrito surge Matthew Clairmont, um vampiro geneticista de 1500 anos de idade, apaixonado por Darwin. Juntos vão tentar desvendar os segredos do manuscrito e impedir que caia em mãos erradas. Mas a paixão que cresce entre ambos ameaça o frágil pacto de paz que existe há séculos entre humanos e criaturas fantásticas... e o mundo de Diana nunca mais voltará a ser o mesmo... Uma história arrebatadora que mistura História, magia, aventura e romance. Para os leitores de Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer e Elizabeth Kostova.

A Noite de Todas as Almas

The Discovery of Witches

Eine Liebe, stärker als das Leben selbst ... Diana Bishop ist Historikerin mit Leib und Seele. Dass in ihr zudem das Blut eines uralten Hexengeschlechts fliesst, versucht sie im Alltag mit aller Kraft zu ignorieren. Doch als Diana in der altehrwürdigen Bodleian-Bibliothek in Oxford ein magisches Manuskript in die Hände fällt, kann sie ihre Herkunft nicht länger verleugnen: Hexen, Dämonen und Vampire heften sich an ihre Fersen, um ihr das geheime Wissen zu entlocken - wenn nötig mit Gewalt. Hilfe erfährt Diana ausgerechnet von Matthew Clairmont, Naturwissenschaftler, 1500 Jahre alter Vampir - und der Mann, der Diana bald schon mehr bedeuten wird als ihr eigenes Leben ... Ein mitreissender, wundervoll erzählter Roman über Magie, Abenteuer und Romantik. Deborah Harkness ist Professorin für europäische Geschichte an der University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Für ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten erhielt sie bereits mehrfach Stipendien und Auszeichnungen. Sie schreibt ausserdem ein preisgekröntes Wein-Blog (goodwineunder20.blogspot.com). Nach ihrem grossen Erfolg Die Seelen der Nacht ist Wo die Nacht beginnt Deborah Harkness' zweiter Roman.

Die Seelen der Nacht

Deborah E. Harkness

En el corazon de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford, la apasionada historiadora Diana Bishop se topa en medio de sus investigaciones con el manuscrito identificado como Ashmole 782. Descendiente de un antiguo linaje de brujas, Diana intuye que el manuscrito está relacionado de alguna manera con la magia, pero no quiere tener nada que ver con la brujería. Y después de tomar algunas notas sobre sus curiosos dibujos, lo devuelve sin perder más tiempo a las estanterías. Lo que Diana no sabe es que se trata de un manuscrito alquímico que ha estado perdido durante siglos y cuyo descubrimiento ha desencadenado que hordas de daimones, vampiros y brujas salgan a la luz de las salas de lectura de la Biblioteca. Una de esas criaturas es Matthew Clairmont, un enigmático genetista, amante del buen vino y vampiro milenario, cuya alianza con Diana se hará progresivamente más íntima y poco a poco surgirá entre ambos una relación que hará tambalear los tabúes asentados desde hace tiempo en un mundo secreto y encantado.

El descubrimiento de las brujas

No primeiro volume desta trilogia Diana Bishop, uma historiadora de Oxford e última descente de uma linhagem de bruxas e Matthew Clairmont, um vampiro geneticista de 1500 anos de idade vão juntos desvendar os segredos de Ashmole 782 e impedir que esse poderoso manuscrito caia nas mãos erradas. Agora, neste segundo tomo, Diana e Matthew viajam no tempo para a Londres de 1590, mas rapidamente se apercebem de que o passado pode não ser um lugar seguro. Matthew alia-se ao Escolha da Noite, um grupo radical de amigos e desregrados demónios, onde se encontram o dramaturgo Christopher Marlowe e o matemático Thomas Harriot e ao assumir as suas anteriores funções como espião de Isabel I, fica em contato com o submundo de uma Londres em ebulição e sedenta da caça às bruxas. Juntos, Matthew e Diana procuram nas velhas livrarias e nos laboratórios de alquimia o célebre Ashmole 782, sem o qual não poderão regressar ao tempo presente. Diana descobre que os seus poderes são muito maiores do que imaginava mas precisa de uma bruxa que lhe ensine a acordar, desenvolver e controlar as suas forças de tecedeira, o que não é fácil para a fêmea de um vampiro!

Nas Trevas da Noite

Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, she contends, formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research. The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution.

Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

The Jewel House

Ansiosamente aguardado por leitores de todo o mundo, Em Busca do Livro da Vida conclui, com magia e suspense inebriantes, a Trilogia de Todas as Almas. O que descobriram em tempos as bruxas? Porque foi esse segredo guardado num livro misterioso chamado Ashmole 782, procurado durante seculos por demonios, vampiros e ate pelas bruxas? Como e que a bruxa Diana Bishop e o cientista vampiro Matthew Clairmont poder?o viver o seu amor quando o peso das suas historias os tenta separar? Na historia de Em Busca do Livro da Vida, Diana e Matthew regressam dramaticamente da Londres isabelina ao presente, onde enfrentam novas crises e velhos inimigos. Em Sept-Tours, o lar ancestral de Matthew, reencontram os adorados personagens de A Noite de Todas as Almas ? com uma importante excec?o. Mas a verdadeira ameaca ao seu futuro ainda esta por revelar. Quando tal acontece, a busca pelo Ashmole 782 e as suas paginas perdidas assume um carater ainda mais urgente.

Em Busca do Livro da Vida

*Now a major Sky TV series* Read the number one Sunday Times bestselling ALL SOULS TRILOGY before you watch A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Season 2. Available together for the first time in the UK, the complete trilogy is perfect for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Stephenie Meyer and Victoria Aveyard. 'This is a glorious, finely-wrought gem of a book: intelligent, thoughtful, intricate. . . Utterly enchanting on every level' Manda Scott on A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 'Deborah Harkness writes as if she's the hugely more talented love child of Diana Gabaldon and J. K. Rowling' thebookbag.co.uk on SHADOW OF NIGHT 'Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy' Sunday Mirror on THE BOOK OF LIFE A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. SHADOW OF NIGHT. THE BOOK OF LIFE. Praise for Deborah Harkness and the ALL SOULS trilogy: 'Deborah Harkness proves to be a novelist of considerable talent. My favourite series of recent years' bookabookshop.co.uk 'Intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to Twilight fans' The Sunday Times 'I fell in love with it from the very first page' Danielle Trussoni 'A spellbinding saga . . . unputdownable' Woman & Home 'Harkness has a gift for storytelling' pamreader.blogspot.co.uk A Conversation with Deborah Harkness How did you become interested in the intersection of alchemy, magic, and science? Historically, what do you see as the relationship between science and religion or mysticism? In college, I had a wonderful professor who taught a class on these subjects. To kick off the class, he asked us, 'How do you know what you think you know?' I've spent the last quarter century trying to answer that question. Because the world is a mysterious place and our relationship to it is not always clear, people have often turned to science, faith, and magic for answers. They help people find responses to the questions of, who am I and why am I here? Diana is an appealing heroine, determined, accomplished, and yet aware of her own weaknesses. In what ways, if any, does Diana reflect your own experience or personality? There are some similarities - Diana is also a historian of science, also interested in the history of alchemy, and shares some of my passions (including television cooking programs, tea, and rowing). Really, all the characters have some element of me in them. I think that's how authors create imaginary people who nevertheless feel real. The rest of Diana's character comes from a combination of qualities I admire in others, wish fulfilment, and my completion of the following statement: 'Wouldn't it be great if a heroine in a book was . . . Find out more about Deborah Harkness and read the full conversation in THE ALL SOULS COMPLETE TRILOGY.

A Discovery of Witches is only the beginning of the story

The All Souls Complete Trilogy

Después de viajar por el tiempo, Diana Bishop y Matthew Clairmont regresan al presente a enfrentar una nueva crisis y viejos enemigos.

El Libro de la Vida

Livro de estreia de Deborah Harkness, A descoberta das bruxas alcançou, já na semana de lançamento nos Estados Unidos, o segundo lugar na concorrida lista dos mais vendidos do The New York Times, e permanece no prestigioso ranking há oito semanas. A respeitada pesquisadora Diana Bishop passou a vida tentando negar a sua verdadeira identidade. Filha única de pais bruxos, ela se torna órfã aos sete anos e passa a rejeitar as suas habilidades mágicas, determinada a se parecer o máximo possível com os humanos. Quando descobre acidentalmente um misterioso manuscrito de alquimia intitulado Ashmale 782, Diana traz à tona um mundo sobrenatural aterrador, com uma horda de demônios, vampiros e bruxas. A partir daí, a aventura de Diana por 1.500 anos de histórias está apenas começando. Um dos interessados na obra do alquimista é Matthew Clairmont, um geneticista com paixão por Darwin. Charmoso e misterioso, apesar da aparência jovem, Matthew vaga pela Terra há mais de 1.500 anos. O vampiro se aproxima de Diana, despertando nela uma forte desconfiança de que, por trás de todo o seu galanteio, se esconda apenas o interesse em obter o livro. Os motivos de sua busca pelo exemplar não são revelados, mas o afeto dele pela poderosa bruxa não demora muito a ficar claro. Diana, relutante em assumir sua natureza de bruxa, também resiste a admitir seus sentimentos pelo vampiro. O casal, no entanto, não demora a se formar. Juntos, Diana e Matthew devem lutar para que o livro não caia em mãos erradas, muitas delas pertencentes à misteriosa Congregação. Enquanto procuram decifrar os segredos do Ashmole 782, que guarda pistas do passado e flashes de fatos do futuro, o amor do casal também provoca conflitos na frágil aliança entre bruxos e vampiros. Mas Diana não deve desistir: afinal, é o sentimento que ela tem por Matthew que a impulsionará a assumir seu legado mágico e seu lugar como a bruxa mais poderosa de todos os tempos.

A descoberta das bruxas

"Una vez asumida su condición de bruja con poderes para viajar en el tiempo, la historiadora Diana Bishop esta preparada para emprender un viaje al pasado en el que poder encontrar el Ashmole 782 completo, un manuscrito secreto cuyos poderes debe comprender para evitar el fin de la pacífica convivencia entre brujas, vampiros, daimones y humanos. Su marido, el genetista Matthew Clairmont, la acompañará en esa búsqueda, pero viajar al pasado no es tan sencillo para un vampiro, y mucho menos a un pasado que ya vivió, donde su "yo" anterior desempeñó un relevante papel en la lucha política de la época; un "yo" que odiaba a las brujas como Diana. Rodeados de intrigas y en una incesante carrera por encontrar el Ashmole 782, Diana y Matthew se adentrarán en el Londres isabelino acompañados de los amigos del Matthew del pasado--los miembros de la Escuela de la Noche, entre los que se encuentran Christopher Marlowe y Sir Walter Raleigh--e incluso de Shakespeare. Pero también deberán refugiarse en un castillo de la campiña francesa y pasar unos meses en la corte del emperador Rodolfo II en Praga para lograr su objetivo y proteger su secreto, mientras Diana aprende a controlar la magia con una poderosa bruja."--Book jacket.

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