Deborah Harkness – författare

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself-and her family history-in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series, hailed as "your next favorite fantasy read" (Harper's Bazaar).

"The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood-the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children."-Jodi Picoult

Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont 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.

In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.

Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont 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. In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.

The #1 New York Times-bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, book two of the All Souls Series. Look for the hit TV series "A Discovery of Witches," streaming on AMC Plus, Sundance Now and Shudder. Season 2 premieres January 9, 2021! 

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont 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--the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit--deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them. Together they find they must embark on a very different - and vastly more dangerous - journey.

"A captivating and romantic ripping yarn,"** Shadow of Night confirms Deborah Harkness as a master storyteller, able to cast an "addictive tale of magic, mayhem and two lovers."**

*E.L. James

**Chicago Tribune

*THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BELOVED NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ALL SOULS SERIES, THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER.*''A masterpiece'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Bewitches you and doesn''t set you free'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''One of the best books I have ever read'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

The phenomenal first instalment in the Number One Sunday Times bestselling ALL SOULS series!

*THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BELOVED NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ALL SOULS SERIES, THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER.*''The balance of romance, magic history and suspense is just right'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''No words can describe how much I loved this . . . it was perfect'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Excellent world-building . . . meticulous and absorbing'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second instalment in the runaway Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.---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.When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. Now the 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...---Five reasons to read A Discovery of Witches and the ALL SOULS series:''Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted''LEIGH BARDUGO''Harkness''s lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch''JODI PICOULT''Rich, thrilling . . . A captivating and romantic ripping yarn''E L JAMES''Intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to Twilight fans''SUNDAY TIMES''A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire . . . an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy''DAILY MAIL

*THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BELOVED NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ALL SOULS SERIES, THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER.*''My favourite book of all time'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''This book was pure perfection'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Absolutely phenomenal . . . It was completely spellbinding'' Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE HARDBACK BESTSELLER! Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the epic third instalment in the runaway Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.___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.___Five reasons to read A Discovery of Witches and the ALL SOULS series:''Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted''LEIGH BARDUGO''Harkness''s lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch''JODI PICOULT''Rich, thrilling . . . A captivating and romantic ripping yarn''E L JAMES''Intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to Twilight fans''SUNDAY TIMES''A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire . . . an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy''DAILY MAIL

''The Black Bird Oracle gives us everything we''ve come to expect and love from Deborah Harkness''s All Souls series. More magic, more lore, more politicking and discovery'' 5* READER REVIEW''I cannot put into words how much I LOVED this book'' 5* READER REVIEW''What a BOOK. Exactly what I needed in prep for witchy season'' 5* READER REVIEW____''Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted'' LEIGH BARDUGO ''Harkness''s lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch'' JODI PICOULTThe first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon when a single, dying raven delivers an invitation to the witch, Diana Bishop. It calls her home to the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, to a place and a family she has never known.And when Diana and her husband Matthew Clairmont learn that their seven-year-old twins must have their magical powers tested, Diana decides to forge a new future for her family, hoping to find answers at the Proctor ancestral home.There, Diana becomes her great aunt Gwyneth''s pupil in Higher Magic. And as Diana walks an unknown path, she must journey to some of the darkest places within her family history - and herself - if she is to unlock greater power.An instant Sunday Times bestseller, The Black Bird Oracle returns to the world of All Souls, sweeping readers back to the Salem Panic to shine a light on the intertwined legacy of the Bishop and Proctor families.____Discover for yourself why readers have fallen under the spell of Deborah Harkness''s All Souls series . . .''Bewitches you and doesn''t set you free'' 5* READER REVIEW''It was so good to be back in the world of Diana and Matthew . . . as captivating as ever!'' 5* READER REVIEW''My favourite book of all time'' 5* READER REVIEW ''Absolutely phenomenal . . . It was completely spellbinding'' 5* READER REVIEW''A masterpiece'' 5* READER REVIEW