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A Discovery of Witches

byDeborah E. Harkness

Genres: Romance Fantasy Dark Fantasy Magical Realism Witchcraft and Wizardry

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy fantasy with strong romantic elements and a rich, immersive world.

Topics WitchcraftForbidden loveAncient manuscriptsSupernatural creaturesForbidden knowledgeHistorical fantasyInterspecies relationshipsSecrets and mysteriesPower strugglesHidden identitiesLoveIdentityPower

MoodSuspenseful, Romantic, Mysterious

Female protagonist

RomanceMajor Subplot

ViolenceMild

Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling All Souls trilogy, now a major television 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. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels...

Language

Published on

29/09/2011

Pages

720

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780755374045

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8.99 £

11.79 €

20.49 €

30.99 €

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