Tag: Deborah Harkness

Guest Post: ‘The Ten Best Books About Libraries’ by Deborah Harkness, author of The Book of Life, The All Souls Trilogy

Posted July 22, 2014 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments
Guest Post: ‘The Ten Best Books About Libraries’ by Deborah Harkness, author of The Book of Life, The All Souls Trilogy

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness with a post about the Ten Best Books about Libraries. Deborah is an author I discovered this year, and it is thanks to book blogging that I was able to read her books – A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night and the epic conclusion in the trilogy The Book of Life. The All Souls Trilogy has become one of my favourite trilogy – it appeals to my love of the historical and reminds me why I love libraries so much. Below, Deborah share her thoughts on the Ten Best Books about Libraries.   In each of these novels, a library plays a starring role. Some are places of wonder and delight. Others provide a venue for solving problems, or are the scene of a crime. And in a few cases the libraries in question are far from ordinary. Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader. A delightful tale about what might happen if the Queen turned to her library for solace and inspiration. A. S. Byatt, Possession. Academic […]

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Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

Posted July 20, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #3 Published by Headline on July 15, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 592 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads 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 […]

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Review: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Posted July 2, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 4 Comments
Review: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #2 Published by Headline on February 14, 2013 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Science Fiction Pages: 630 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads 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 different—and vastly more dangerous—journey. Shadow of Night beautiful weaves the fantasy elements with the rich detail of historical facts. The main problem with this book is that all the characters that we grew to love in A Discovery of Witches […]

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Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Posted June 25, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 5 Comments
Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #1 Published by Headline on September 29, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Pages: 688 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy. 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. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it’s an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she’s […]

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