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All Souls · Book 1

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah Harkness

Published
8 February 2011
Pages
608
ISBN-13
9780755374045
Type
novel

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About this book

Deborah Harkness opened the All Souls series on 8 February 2011 with A Discovery of Witches, a substantial 608-page debut despite the series name suggesting a trilogy that would eventually grow beyond three books.

Its place in All Souls

A Discovery of Witches is book 1 in the All Souls series. It is followed by Shadow of Night. See the full All Souls reading order.

Deborah Harkness's All Souls novels follow Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch descended from a powerful magical bloodline, and Matthew Clairmont, a centuries-old vampire and geneticist, whose romance across the supernatural divide sets off a war among witches, vampires, and daemons who have coexisted in secret alongside humans for centuries. It begins in Oxford with A Discovery of Witches , when Diana unknowingly summons a lost, magically significant manuscript from the Bodleian Library, and expands…

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