Bishop, your manuscripts are up,” he whispered, voice tinged with a touch of mischief.
Even so, I was surprised when Sean stopped me at the call desk. But I knew there was something odd about it from the moment I collected it.ĭuke Humfrey’s Reading Room was deserted on this late-September afternoon, and requests for library materials were filled quickly now that the summer crush of visiting scholars was over and the madness of the fall term had not yet begun. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, ancient and worn. The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, and concludes with The Book of Life. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now “ hot show that’s like Twilight meets Outlander” ( Thrillist) airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, as well as streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder.ĭeborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. Book one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy-"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” ( People).
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