Shadow of Night

#2 All Souls Trilogy

Deborah Harkness

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Headline
12 February 2013

Fantasy; Witch Paranormal

Series: All Souls

Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile 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...

By: Deborah Harkness
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 456g
ISBN: 9780755384754
ISBN 10: 075538475X
Series: All Souls
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 12 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at USC, specialising in science and medicine in early modern Europe. She is the author most recently of THE JEWEL HOUSE (Yale, 2007), based on her ground-breaking work on how science was practiced in Elizabethan London. (And she really did once find a missing manuscript in the Bodleian Library!)

Reviews for Shadow of Night (#2 All Souls Trilogy)

What a rich, thrilling and educational tale it is... A captivating and romantic ripping yarn - E L James, Books of the year 2012, Guardian Deborah Harkness has done us proud with her magnificent, enthralling, engrossing sequel... Her weaving of time and ancient lore, of modern science and alchemy, or vampires, daemons and all-too-mortal humans is magical, wonderful and utterly addictive. You won't be able to put it down - Manda Scott