THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER * A Discovery of Witches is soon to be a major TV series - immerse yourself in the ALL SOULS world* Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the stunning climax to their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. 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. ''Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy'' Sunday Mirror on THE BOOK OF LIFE After travelling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT , the second book in Deborah Harkness''s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew''s ancestral home in France they reunite with their families - with one heart-breaking exception. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency. Using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the palaces of Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.

An inventive addition to the supernatural craze...has exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache

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Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the epic third instalment in the runaway Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.

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Deborah Harkness is a historian of science and a professor of history at the University of Southern California. She spent several years in Oxford doing research (and really did once find a missing manuscript in the Bodleian Library!). She has written THE JEWEL HOUSE: ELIZABETHAN LONDON AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION as well as the three novels in the internationally bestselling ALL SOULS trilogy, A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE.

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE HARDBACK BESTSELLER!

Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the epic third instalment in the runaway Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.
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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.

After travelling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT*,* the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchant­ing series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies.

At Matthew's ancestral home in France they reunite with their families - with one heart-breaking exception. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency.

Using ancient knowl­edge and modern science, from the palaces of Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.

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Five reasons to read A Discovery of Witches and the ALL SOULS series:

'Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted'
LEIGH BARDUGO

'Harkness's lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch'
JODI PICOULT

'Rich, thrilling . . . A captivating and romantic ripping yarn'
E L JAMES

'Intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to Twilight fans'
SUNDAY TIMES

'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire . . . an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy'
DAILY MAIL

Zusammenfassung
The exciting third instalment in the ALL SOULS series following the No.1 internationally bestselling A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT.