The Book of Life: The third gripping novel in the enchanting All Souls series
Deborah Harkness
Jul 2014 · Headline · Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda
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*NOW A MAJOR SKY TV SERIES. Read the novel Season 3 is based on.*
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER
Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in this phenomenal third instalment of their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT.
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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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PRAISE FOR DEBORAH HARKNESS:
'Rich, thrilling . . . captivating' E L James
'Intelligent and off-the-wall' The Sunday Times
'Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy' Sunday Mirror
'I could lose myself in here and never want to come out' Manda Scott
'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire' Daily Mail
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER
Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in this phenomenal third instalment of 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.
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.
_____________
PRAISE FOR DEBORAH HARKNESS:
'Rich, thrilling . . . captivating' E L James
'Intelligent and off-the-wall' The Sunday Times
'Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy' Sunday Mirror
'I could lose myself in here and never want to come out' Manda Scott
'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire' Daily Mail
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4.5
26 reviews
Lin RP
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November 8, 2022
brilliant and loved every minute of this.
Granny T
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December 7, 2022
impressive.
Lori Wilson-Blakely
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March 12, 2023
brilliant.
About the author
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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