The Black Bird Oracle: The exhilarating new All Souls novel featuring Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont...

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Deborah Harkness

The Black Bird Oracle

The exhilarating new All Souls novel featuring Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont

Deborah Harkness

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Headline Book Publishing
13 May 2025

Conjuring & magic; Witchcraft; Mysticism, magic & ritual; Magic, spells & alchemy

Series: All Souls

'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
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'I cannot put into words how much I LOVED this book' 5
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'What a BOOK. Exactly what I needed in prep for witchy season' 5
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'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

The 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
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'It was so good to be back in the world of Diana and Matthew . . . as captivating as ever!' 5
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'My favourite book of all time' 5
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'Absolutely phenomenal . . . It was completely spellbinding' 5
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'A masterpiece' 5
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By: Deborah Harkness
Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781035410200
ISBN 10: 1035410206
Series: All Souls
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Deborah Harkness is the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life, Time's Convert and The World of All Souls. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow Deborah Harkness on Twitter @DebHarkness and Instagram @debharkness, and visit www.deborahharkness.com and www.facebook.com/AuthorDeborahHarkness