The Book of Life: The third gripping novel in the enchanting All Souls series

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Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the epic third instalment in the runaway Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.

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A world of witches, daemons and vampires.
A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future.
Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it.

After travelling 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 in France they reunite with their families - with one heart-breaking exception. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency.

Using ancient knowl­edge and modern science, from the palaces of Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.

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Five reasons to read A Discovery of Witches and the ALL SOULS series:

'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

'Rich, thrilling . . . A captivating and romantic ripping yarn'
E L JAMES

'Intelligent and off-the-wall . . . irresistible to Twilight fans'
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'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire . . . an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy'
DAILY MAIL