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After the fantastic success of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, everyone is eagerly awaiting the second instalment of the ALL SOULS trilogy.
It began with A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.
Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened.
Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. 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. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot.
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...
Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in this stunning, richly imagined, epic tale.
About the Author
Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at USC, specialising in science and medicine in early modern Europe. She is the author recently of THE JEWEL HOUSE (Yale, 2007), based on her ground-breaking work on how science was practiced in Elizabethan London, as well as the international bestseller A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. (And she really did once find a missing manuscript in the Bodleian Library!)
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i am now waiting for the next installment
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loved this book very hard to put down
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Like the first of the All Souls Trilogy, A Discovery of Witches, its a long, intellectual read.
Harkness showcases her primary career as a History Professor in this book where we see the heroine Diana Bishop return to Elizabethan London to find answers to her future.
Like the first of the trilogy there are some parts that are hard to grasp on the first read but it's definitely worth the perseverance because the All Souls Trilogy is a fantastic story blending Fiction and History perfectly.
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Just as good as the first
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'Deborah Harkness has done us proud with her magnificent, enthralling, engrossing sequel to 'Discovery of Witches'. Her weaving of time and ancient lore, of modern science and alchemy, or vampires, daemons and all-too-mortal humans is magical, wonderful and utterly addictive. You won't be able to put it down, so set aside a weekend and be prepared for some very late nights...' [Manda Scott]Praise for A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES: 'Intelligent and off-the-wall...irresistible to Twilight fans' The Sunday Times; 'An inventive addition to the supernatural craze...has exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache' Marie Claire; 'Write what you know, debut novelists are told and Professor Deborah Harkness has accordingly set hers in the world of academia... A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire...all the ingredients for an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy' Daily Mail; 'A romp through magical academia' Guardian [Various]
ISBN: 9780755384747
ISBN-10: 0755384741
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 592
Published: 10th July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.2 x 15.8
x 4.3
Weight (kg): 0.76
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