A Discovery of Witches
All Souls Trilogy : Book One
By: Deborah Harkness
Paperback | 27 September 2011 | Edition Number 1
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The phenomenal international bestseller and the first volume in the enthralling All Souls Trilogy, preceding Shadow of Night and the Book of Life. Soon to Be a Major TV Series.
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.
Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont.
This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past . . . and the key to their future.
About the Author
Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at USC, specializing in science and medicine in early modern Europe. She is the author most recently of The Jewel House (Yale, 2007), based on her ground-breaking work on how science was practiced in Elizabethan London. (And she really did once find a missing manuscript in the Bodleian Library!)
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.
Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont.
This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past . . . and the key to their future.
About the Author
Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at USC, specializing in science and medicine in early modern Europe. She is the author most recently of The Jewel House (Yale, 2007), based on her ground-breaking work on how science was practiced in Elizabethan London. (And she really did once find a missing manuscript in the Bodleian Library!)
Industry Reviews
Intelligent and off-the-wall, it will be irresistible to Twilight fans - The Sunday TimesA bubbling cauldron of illicit desire...all the ingredients for an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy - Daily MailAn inventive addition to the supernatural craze... Historian Harkness's racy paranormal romance has exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache - Marie ClaireA romp through magical academia - Guardian...a grand romance smartly dressed up in the fashion for the occult...Sauced up with magic as well as being intelligent, the novel will be irresistible to Twilight fans - The Sunday Times
ISBN: 9780755374045
ISBN-10: 0755374045
Series: All Souls
Published: 27th September 2011
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 720
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Headline
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 4.5 x 13.1 x 19.7
Weight (kg): 0.49
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