Books in series
#1A
Księga Wszystkich Dusz. Tom 1
Czarownica
2011
Piękna i młoda doktor historii Diana Bishop studiuje alchemiczne księgi w oksfordzkiej Bibliotece Bodlejańskiej. Jeden manuskrypt promieniuje dziwnym lśnieniem. Brakuje mu kilku stron. A spod pisma wyłania się niemożliwy do odczytania inny tekst.
Diana wie, że by go odczytać, musiałaby użyć swoich magicznych mocy. Pochodzi bowiem z potężnej rodziny o wielowiekowych czarnoksięskich tradycjach. Z rodziny pierwszej czarownicy straconej w Salem. Ale Diana boi się swojej magii. Broni się przed nią.
Wraca jednak do księgi. Ale okazuje się, że manuskryptu nie ma w bibliotece, bo zaginął przeszło sto lat wcześniej…
Tymczasem Oksfordem wstrząsają tajemnicze morderstwa. A Bibliotekę Bodlejańską zaludniają niebezpieczne czarownice, czarnoksiężnicy, demony i wampiry. Wszyscy poszukują księgi…
Wśród tych istot, których nie sposób odróżnić od ludzi, jest urzekający Matthew Clairmont – tajemniczy światowej sławy profesor biochemii i neurologii.
Diana wie, że nie wolno jej złamać zakazu wchodzenia w uczuciowe związki z przedstawicielami innych ras. Wie, że tę miłość może przypłacić życiem.
Tak rozpoczyna się przebogata opowieść o zakazanej potężnej miłości, wśród walki o tajemnicę, która być może zmieni świat…
#1
A Discovery of Witches
2011
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.
Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.
#1B
A Discovery of Witches Vol. 2 of 2
2011
#1A
A Discovery of Witches Vol. 1 of 2
2011
#2B
Księga Wszystkich Dusz. Tom 4
Powrót
2012
Diana Bishop, młoda doktor historii z potężnej czarnoksięskiej rodziny, i Matthew Clairmont, fascynujący i nieśmiertelny naukowiec, połączeni wielkim zakazanym uczuciem rozpoczęli walkę o niebezpieczną tajemnicę, która zmieni świat.
Idąc tropem zaginionej zaklętej księgi, której szukają wszystkie magiczne rasy, przenieśli się w czasie do elżbietańskiego Londynu i rozdzieranej krwawą wojną religijną Francji. Teraz, żeby odnaleźć manuskrypt Ashmole 782, wyruszają w jeszcze dalszą i jeszcze bardziej ryzykowną wędrówkę – do XVI-wiecznej Pragi.
Tam, na cesarskim dworze, staną wobec zaskakującego żądania i ściągną na siebie gniew królowej Anglii.
A Diana pozna wreszcie szokującą prawdę o swoim ukochanym. Lecz czeka ich jeszcze najbardziej niebezpieczna podróż – powrót…
#2A
Księga Wszystkich Dusz. Tom 3
Wędrówka
2012
Diana Bishop, młoda doktor historii z czarnoksięskiej rodziny, i Matthew Clairmont, zagadkowy profesor biochemii,
połączeni zakazanym uczuciem rozpoczęli walkę o niebezpieczną tajemnicę, która być może zmieni świat. Teraz muszą przenieść się pięćset lat wstecz, do elżbietańskiego Londynu.
To świat szpiegów i podstępów, starych przyjaciół Matthew połączonych w nowe koterie i alchemicznych pracowni, tajemniczej Szkoły Nocy i jej równie tajemniczych „uczniów”, jak wielkie umysły epoki: poeta Christopher Marlowe i matematyk Thomas Harriot, stąpający śmiało po cienkiej granicy pomiędzy geniuszem a szaleństwem.
Idąc tropem zaklętej księgi, której poszukują wszystkie magiczne rasy, Diana zmierzy się ze swoją czarnoksięską
mocą, a Matthew – z demonami swojej przeszłości. Lecz żeby poznać sekret manuskryptu Ashmole 782, będą musieli znowu uciekać i wyruszyć w jeszcze dalszą i jeszcze bardziej ryzykowną wędrówkę – wśród spisków i intryg, niebezpiecznej magii i wielkiej, pięknej miłości…
#2
Shadow of Night
2012
Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey.
#3
The Book of Life
2014
The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night
Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.
#3
The Book of Life
2014
The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night
Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.
#4
Time's Convert
2018
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches comes a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.
On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus' deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood.
Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor—the young employee at Sotheby's whom Marcus has fallen for—is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. The shadows that Marcus believed he'd escaped centuries ago may return to haunt them both—forever.
A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities not just for change but for revolution, Time's Convert channels the supernatural world-building and slow-burning romance that made the All Souls Trilogy instant bestsellers to illuminate a new and vital moment in history, and a love affair that will bridge centuries.
#5
The Black Bird Oracle
2024
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved \#1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series.
Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long\-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782\. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line.
Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven\-year\-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great\-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana.
On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past, and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.
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The Falcon and the Rose
2025
#1-3
All Souls Trilogy
A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life
2014
The entire All Souls trilogy, including A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, now available in a beautiful boxed set
With more than two million copies sold in the United States, the novels of the All Souls trilogy have landed on all of the major bestseller lists, garnered rave reviews, and spellbound legions of loyal fans.
Now including a limited edition of Diana Bishop's Commonplace book—which contains a floor plan of the Old Lodge, snippets of poetry, some passages from a witch's grimoire, astrological insights, and much more—as a special bonus, this lavishly designed boxed set is perfect for readers who love magic, passion, history, and suspense.
#1-4
The All Souls Collection
2021
Read the COMPLETE ALL SOULS COLLECTION before you watch A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES Season 3.
Immerse yourself in the ALL SOULS world with the complete collection from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Deborah Harkness. Perfect for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Stephenie Meyer and Victoria Aveyard.
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A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.
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.
SHADOW OF NIGHT.
In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling.
Diana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures.
To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past.
THE BOOK OF LIFE.
Endings. Beginnings. Change.
The world of witches, daemons and vampires is dangerously threatened. Diana and Matthew. Witch and vampire.
Their love has brought conflict and hope. But only together can they learn at last what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.
And it will have consequences for all...
TIME'S CONVERT.
Sweeping from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, through the treachery of the French Revolution to a bloody finale in New Orleans, Time's Convert returns to the enchanting ALL SOULS world for a love story like no other.
Author
Deborah Harkness
Author · 18 books
Deborah Harkness is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who draws on her expertise as an historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism, historical curiosity, and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are. The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls. The All Souls series has been translated in thirty-eight languages. The popular television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now, and also broadcast on AMC. Having spent more than a quarter of a century as a student and scholar of history, Harkness holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Davis. She is currently a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she teaches European history and the history of science. Harkness has published scholarly articles on topics such as the influence of theatrical conventions on the occult sciences, scientific households, female medical practice in early modern London, medical curiosity, and the influence of accounting practices on scientific record keeping. She has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships, and her most recent scholarly work is The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.
