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A Discovery of Witches

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8th February 2011

Price: £25

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9780755381104

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS series.


It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont.

This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past . . . and the key to their future.

‘Rich, thrilling . . . captivating’ E L James

‘Intelligent and off-the-wall’ The Sunday Times

‘I could lose myself in here and never want to come out’ Manda Scott

‘A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire’ Daily Mail

(P)2011 Penguin Audio

Reviews

The Sunday Times
'Intelligent and off-the-wall, it will be irresistible to Twilight fans'
Daily Mail
Write what you know, debut novelists are told, and Professor Deborah Harkness has accordingly set hers in the world of academia... A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire...all the ingredients for an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy
Marie Claire
'An inventive addition to the supernatural craze... Historian Harkness's racy paranormal romance has exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache'
Guardian
A romp through magical academia
The Sunday Times
...a grand romance smartly dressed up in the fashion for the occult...Sauced up with magic as well as being intelligent, the novel will be irresistible to Twilight fans