Bøger af Deborah Harkness

The phenomenal No.1 international bestseller and the second volume in the enthralling All SOULS trilogy

From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, soon to be a major Sky TV series, a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.

The exciting third installment in the ALL SOULS trilogy following the No.1 internationally bestselling A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT

The phenomenal international bestseller and the first volume in the enthralling All SOULS trilogy, preceding SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE.

Diana og Matthews forhold strider mod en gammel pagt, som skal sikre ro og afstand mellem arterne. Efter Diana er stødt på et gammelt fortryllet manuskript, forstår hun, at nogen vil hende til livs, og sammen med Matthew forsøger hun at finde ud af, hvad manuskriptet, kaldet Ashmole 782, indeholder af hemmeligheder. Efter at have rejst tilbage i tiden til elizabethanske London vender parret tilbage til nutiden for at stå ansigt til ansigt med nye udfordringer og gamle fjender. Da den største trussel mod deres fremtid sammen bliver afsløret, bliver det endnu mere vigtigt at finde de manglende sider i Ashmole 782. Jagten fører dem fra bjergene i Auvergne til paladserne i Venedig, før sandheden til sidst kan findes.Tredje og sidste bog i trilogien om heksen Diana og vampyren Matthew. Til dig, der elsker fantasy, paranormal romance og bøger som Harry Potter, Outlander og Twilight. Harkness kombinerer elementer af magi, historie, eventyr, kærlighed og videnskab. Livets bog er en international bestseller og afslutningen på Heksenat og Nattens skygge.All Souls-triologien er blevet filmatiseret til serien A Discovery of Witches, der bliver sendt på HBO. Hovedrollerne Diana Bishop og Matthew Clairmont bliver spillet af Teresa Palmer og Matthew Goode."Harkness væver en usædvanlig kompleks historie fuld af magi og videnskab, historie og fiktion, lidenskab og magt, hemmeligheder og sandheder og leverer en uforglemmelig og tryllebindende finale, som man ikke må gå glip af." – USA Today"En absolut tilfredsstillende afslutning på trilogien." – Entertainment WeeklyDeborah Harkness er historieprofessor ved University of Southern California med speciale i videnskab og medicin i det tidlige moderne Europa. Hun har tidligere skrevet lære- og historiebøger, men A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES er hendes første roman.

The phenomenal international bestseller and the first volume in the enthralling All SOULS trilogy, preceding SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE. SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES.

"Sammen løftede vi fødderne og trådte ind i det ukendte ... "Dette er den spændende fortsættelse af Heksenat om historikeren Diana Bishop fra Oxford, som er ud af hekseslægt. En dag støder hun på et gammelt, fortryllet manuskript, som det viser sig, at andre væsener – hekse, vampyrer og dæmoner – forgæves har forsøgt at få fingrene i i århundreder. En af dem er vampyren og genetikeren Matthew Clairmont, og et romantisk forhold udvikler sig mellem ham og Diana. I "Nattens skygge" er Diana og Matthew, ved hjælp af Dianas evne som tidsrejsende, søgt tilbage til Matthews hjem ved Oxford i år 1590. De vil skjule sig for dem, der misbilliger deres forhold, men de skal også lokalisere manuskriptet, før det bliver fortryllet. Rejsen tilbage til dunkle elizabethanske London er fuld af farer og spioner, men parret modtager hjælp fra Matthews venner i det mystiske selskab Nattens Skole, og Matthew bliver konfronteret med en del af sin lange fortid, som han troede var glemt og begravet. Deborah Harkness har endnu en gang kreeret en fascinerende og farefuld verden fuld af fantasi, alkymi, tidsrejser, kærlighed og magiske opdagelser.All Souls-triologien er blevet filmatiseret til serien A Discovery of Witches, der bliver sendt på HBO. Hovedrollerne Diana Bishop og Matthew Clairmont bliver spillet af Teresa Palmer og Matthew Goode.

Det begynder med fravær og begær.Det begynder med blod og frygt.Det begynder med en opdagelse af hekse.Historikeren Diana Bishop, der er af hekseslægt, forsker i alkymistiske skrifter og falder over et fortryllet manuskript i Bodleian Library i Oxford. Diana har ikke brugt magi, siden hendes forældre blev dræbt på grund af deres evner, men da hun mærker manuskriptets kræfter, aner hun farer og sender det tilbage i arkivet uden at afkode dets indhold og hemmeligheder. Hvad hun ikke ved er, at den gamle alkymistiske tekst Ashmole 782 har været forsvundet i århundreder og tiltrækker sig opmærksomhed fra andre væsner. Deriblandt vampyren Matthew Clairmont, som forsker i genetik. Meget imod sin vilje bliver Diana tiltrukket af Matthew, men et forhold mellem en heks og en vampyr er ikke problemfrit – især ikke da deres forhold strider mod en gammel pagt, som skal sikre ro og afstand mellem arterne og undgå at tiltrække sig opmærksomhed fra menneskerne. I takt med at Dianas magiske evner vokser, står det klart, at nogen vil hende til livs, og sammen med Matthew forsøger hun at finde ud af, hvad manuskriptet indeholder af hemmeligheder om arternes fortid og mere interessant; deres fremtid. Og det skal vise sig at blive noget af en rejse – både i tid og sted."Vidunderlig og fortryllende fantasy for voksne - en historie om hekse, vampyrer, dæmoner og mennesker spundet ind i medrivende historie om et forhekset gammlet manuskript og forbudt kærlighed." - LitteratursidenAll Souls-triologien er blevet filmatiseret til serien A Discovery of Witches, der bliver sendt på HBO. Hovedrollerne Diana Bishop og Matthew Clairmont bliver spillet af Teresa Palmer og Matthew Goode.

The #1New York Timesbestselling series finale and sequel toA Discovery of WitchesandShadow of Night. Look for the hit TV series ';A Discovery of Witches' airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, and streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder. After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witcheswith one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy's final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. With more than one million copies sold in the United States and appearing in thirty-eight foreign editions, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night have landed on all of the major bestseller lists and garnered rave reviews from countless publications. Eagerly awaited by Harkness's legion of fans, The Book of Life brings this superbly written series to a deeply satisfying close.

The #1New York Timesbestselling sequel toA Discovery of Witches,book two of the All Souls Trilogy';as enchanting, engrossing, and impossible to put down as its predecessor' (Miami Herald). Look for the hit TV series ';A Discovery of Witches' airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, and streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder. J. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Anne Riceonly a few writers capture the imagination the way that Deborah Harkness has with her New York Timesbestselling All Souls trilogy. A Discovery of Witches introduces reluctant witch Diana Bishop, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and the battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them, and they embark on a very differentand vastly more dangerousjourney.

Book one of theNew York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy"e;a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic ofHarry PotterandTwilight' (People). Now ';[a] hot show that's likeTwilightmeetsOutlander' (Thrillist)airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, as well as streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder. Deborah Harkness's sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, and concludes with The Book of Life.

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself - and her family history - in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.The first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon when a single, dying raven lands on the pavement in front of Diana Bishop, harbinger of an invitation that reads, 'It's time you came home, Diana'. Diana is a witch and scholar; her husband Matthew Clairmont, a vampire. Their intense love for one another awoke the dark powers within her and dissolved the Covenant between the three species - Witch, Daemon and Vampire - that live alongside humans. Now, the governing Congregation has decided it must test the magical powers of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Becca. Concerned with their safety, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and travels to Ravenswood, the Proctor family home.There, Diana begins a new era, becoming her great aunt Gwyneth's pupil in higher magic. It's time to confront her family's past - and her own, inescapable desire for greater power.Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness returns to her beloved All Souls world with a triumphant novel that sweeps back to the Salem Panic and illuminates Diana's family history in new and thrilling ways.

From the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofA Discovery of Witchesnow a hit TV series on AMC and BBC America, and streaming on Sundance Now and Shuddercomes a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus's deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood.Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor--the young employee at Sotheby's whom Marcus has fallen for--is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. The shadows that Marcus believed he'd escaped centuries ago may return to haunt them both--forever.A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities not just for change but for revolution, Time's Convert channels the supernatural world-building and slow-burning romance that made the All Souls Trilogy instant bestsellers to illuminate a new and vital moment in history, and a love affair that will bridge centuries.

El desenlace de El descubrimiento de las brujas La gran aventura culmina aquí Tras viajar en el tiempo con La sombra de la noche, la historiadora y bruja Diana Bishop y el genetista Matthew Clairmont vuelven al presente para hacer frente a nuevos problemas y a viejos enemigos. Pero la amenaza real para su futuro todavía está por llegar y, cuando lo hace, la búsqueda del Ashmole 782 y sus páginas perdidas cobra aún mayor urgencia. En casas ancestrales y laboratorios universitarios, haciendo uso de conocimientos antiguos y de la ciencia moderna, desde las colinas de la campiña francesa hasta los palacios de Venecia, la pareja al fin desvelará lo que las brujas descubrieron hace siglos. ¿En qué consistía el secreto encerrado en el misterioso Ashmole 782 y después perseguido incansablemente por daimones, vampiros y brujos? ¿Cómo podrán la bruja Diana y el vampiro Matthew vivir su amor y cumplir con su misión bajo elpeso de todas las diferencias que los separan? En esta última entrega de la serie iniciada con El descubrimiento de las brujas, Harkness cierra magistralmente el suspense y la magia de una trilogía que ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. La crítica ha dicho... «Fantasía para adultos maravillosamente imaginativa, con toda la magia de Harry Potter o Crepúsculo... Una irresistible historia de hechicería, ciencia y amor prohibido». People «Tejiendo una historia extraordinariamente rica en magia y ciencia, historia y ficción, pasión y poder, secretos y mentiras, Harkness ha escrito una última entrega de la serie inolvidable y cautivadora que no hay que perderse». USA Today «Harkness ha hechizado a los lectores con su universo alternativo... El libro de la vida rebosa sensualidad, intriga, violencia y un humor muy de agradecer». Los Angeles Times «Un delicioso broche para la trilogía». Publishers Weekly «Harkness demuestra ser ella misma una alquimista que combina elementos de magia, historia, romance y ciencia, transformándolos en un fascinante viaje a través del tiempo, el espacio y la geografía». Booklist «Una saga emocionante y conmovedora». US Weekly «Desde su impactante arranque, Harkness lanza su propio e imborrable hechizo... Es fantástica dando vida a su mágico mundo y manteniendo una narración trepidante que se lee sin poder parar». The Boston Globe «Harkness triunfa en la parte más difícil del género fantástico: consigue hacer este mundo tan real que uno cree que existe, o al menos desearía que fuera así». Miami Herald ENGLISH DESCRIPTION After traveling through time in Shadow. of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches-- with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy's final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago

Una vez asumida su condición de bruja con poderes para viajar en el tiempo, la historiadora Diana Bishop está preparada para emprender un viaje al pasado en el que poder encontrar el Ashmole 782 completo, el manuscrito secreto cuyos poderes deben comprender para evitar el fin de la pacífica convivencia entre brujas, vampiros, daimones y humanos. Su marido, el genetista Matthew Clairmont, la acompañará en esa búsqueda, pero viajar al pasado no es tan sencillo para un vampiro, y mucho menos a un pasado que ya vivió, donde su «yo» del pasado desempeñó un relevante papel en la lucha política de la época; un «yo» que odiaba a las brujas como Diana. Rodeados de intrigas y en una incesante carrera por encontrar Ashmole 782, Diana y Matthew se adentrarán en el Londres isabelino acompañados por los amigos del Matthew del pasado --los miembros de la Escuela de la Noche y entre los que se encuentran Christopher Marlowe y sir Walter Raleigh--, e incluso Shakespeare. Pero también deberán refugiarse en un castillo de la campiña francesa y pasar unos meses en la corte del emperador Rodolfo II en Praga para lograr su objetivo y proteger su secreto, mientras Diana aprende a controlar la magia con una poderosa bruja. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Two of the All Souls Trilogy plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies and subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the mysterious School of Night. The mission is to locate a witch to tutor Diana and to find traces of Ashmole 782, but as the net of Matthew's past tightens around them they embark on a very different journey, one that takes them into heart of the 1,500 year old vampire's shadowed history and secrets. For Matthew Clairmont, time travel is no simple matter; nor is Diana's search for the key to understanding her legacy. Shadow of Night brings us a rich and splendid tapestry of alchemy, magic, and history, taking us through the loop of time to deliver a deepening love story, a tale of blood, passion, and the knotted strands of the past.

En el corazón de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford, la apasionada historiadora Diana Bishop se topa en medio de sus investigaciones con el manuscrito identificado como Ashmole 782. Descendiente de un antiguo linaje de brujas, Diana intuye que el manuscrito está relacionado de alguna manera con la magia, pero no quiere tener nada que ver con la brujería. Y después de tomar algunas notas sobre sus curiosos dibujos, lo devuelve sin perder más tiempo a las estanterías. Lo que Diana no sabe es que se trata de un manuscrito alquímico que ha estado perdido durante siglos y cuyo descubrimiento ha desencadenado que hordas de daimones, vampiros y brujas salgan a la luz de las salas de lectura de la Biblioteca. Una de esas criaturas es Matthew Clairmont, un enigmático genetista, amante del buen vino y vampiro milenario, cuya alianza con Diana se hará progresivamente más íntima y poco a poco surgirá entre ambos una relación que hará tambalear los tabúes asentados desde hace tiempo en un mundo secreto y encantado. La teoría de la evolución de Darwin no contempló todos los seres que habitan la Tierra, pero Deborah Harkness lo ha hecho en esta emocionante e ingeniosa novela. Desde Oxford a Nueva York, y de aquí a Francia, la magia, la alquimia y la ciencia nos desvelan sus verdaderos vínculos en el libro definitivo sobre la brujería y sus poderes. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family's legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer. For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interested in the witch's discovery. They believe that the manuscript contains important clues about the past and the future, and want to know how Diana Bishop has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume. Chief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript's secrets. But the relationship that develops between the ages-old vampire and the spellbound witch threatens to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between creatures and humans--and will certainly transform Diana's world as well.

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself - and her family history - in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series. Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.

"En el campo de batalla de la Revoluciâon Americana, Matthew de Clermont conoce al joven cirujano Marcus MacNeil. Se trata de un momento de cambio y agitaciâon polâitica en el que parece que el mundo esta a un paso de un futuro mejor. Y cuando Matthew le ofrece la oportunidad de ser inmortal y liberarse de las restricciones de su entorno, Marcus se lanza sin dudar a la posibilidad de convertirse en vampiro. Pero Matthew estâa haciendo mucho mâas que salvar su vida. Le estâa ofreciendo la oportunidad de vencer al tiempo. Siglos despuâes, en el Londres actual, Marcus se enamora de Phoebe Taylor, una joven empleada de Sotheby's. Y cuando ella tambiâen decide seguir su corazâon y convertirse en vampiro, la pareja descubre que los desafâios que esperan a los humanos que desean esta transformaciâon no son menos formidables en el mundo moderno de lo que lo eran el el siglo XVIII. Las sombras de las que Marcus creâia haber escapado tanto tiempo atrâas pueden regresar a perseguirlos... para siempre." --From back cover.

The #1 New York Times-bestselling third installment of the All Souls series, and the basis for the final season of "A Discovery of Witches," coming soon to AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder.In The Book of Life Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present--facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.In the third volume of the All Souls series, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In palatial homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.

The perfect companion piece to the spellbinding All Souls trilogy. A thorough insight into the history and magic behind Deborah Harkness's world of witches, daemons and vampires.