« Il est temps de rentrer. » Quand un corbeau utilise sa fille de six ans pour lui transmettre ce message, Diana comprend qu'une
prophétie qui la dépasse est en marche. Un pressentiment conforté lorsqu'elle reçoit, le même jour, une lettre au contenu sinistrement
similaire de Gwyneth Proctor, la grand-tante dont elle ignorait jusque-là l'existence.
Alors que la Congrégation s'intéresse d'un peu trop près aux pouvoirs de ses enfants, Diana accepte l'étrange invitation à Ravenswood, la
terre sacrée des Proctor. Sorcière puissante, Gwyneth est peut-être la seule personne qui pourrait l'aider à les protéger.
Mais la Congrégation et les sombres secrets des Proctor ne sont pas les seuls obstacles qui se dressent sur son chemin. Pour accéder à
une magie supérieure et éviter que l'histoire familiale se répète, Diana va devoir se libérer de ses peurs et accepter sa soif de pouvoir...
Diana Bishop a renoncé depuis longtemps à un héritage familial compliqué pour privilégier ses recherches universitaires, une vie simple et ordinaire. Jusqu'au jour où elle emprunte un manuscrit alchimique : l'Ashmole 782. Elle ignore alors qu'elle vient de réveiller un ancien et terrible secret - un secret convoité par de nombreuses et redoutables créatures. Dont Matthew Clairmont. Un tueur, lui a-t-on dit. Malgré elle, Diana se retrouve au coeur de la tourmente.Deborah Harkness est professeur à l'université de Californie du Sud. Best-seller international, Le Livre perdu des sortilèges est en cours d'adaptation cinématographique. Premier roman de l'auteur, il mêle avec brio passion et sensualité, réalisme et fantastique, quête ésotérique et suspense.
Diana Bishop, jeune historienne héritière d'une puissante lignée de sorcières, et le vampire Matthew Clairmont ont brisé le pacte qui leur interdisait de s'aimer. Quand Diana a découvert l'Ashmole 782, un manuscrit alchimique, à la bibliothèque d'Oxford, elle a déclenché un conflit millénaire. La paix fragile entre les vampires, les sorcières, les démons et les humains est désormais menacée. Déterminés à percer le mystère du manuscrit perdu, et tentant d'échapper à leurs ennemis, Diana et Matthew ont fui à Londres... en 1590. Un monde d'espions et de subterfuges, qui les plonge dans les arcanes du passé de Matthew et les confronte aux pouvoirs de Diana. Et à l'inquiétante École de la nuit.
Découvrez enfin la suite du Livre perdu des sortilèges...
Phoebe, jeune humaine, est amoureuse d'un vampire, Marcus MacNeil. Décidée à rester auprès de son âme soeur pour l'éternité, elle choisit, comme Marcus des siècles auparavant, de devenir vampire.
Tandis que, en plein Paris, elle traverse jour après jour le processus long et codifié de la transformation, Marcus attend loin d'elle, comme l'exige la règle, et trouve le temps bien long. Dans une demeure en Auvergne, entouré de Matthew et Diana, désormais parents de jumeaux aux pouvoirs déjà extraordinaires, il se replonge dans son passé, souvent douloureux, et sa propre métamorphose, des siècles plus tôt en Amérique. C'est alors qu'il disparaît du jour au lendemain. Serait-ce lié aux souvenirs sombres et à la réminiscence de dangers que Phoebe s'apprête à son tour à affronter par amour pour lui ?Si vos avez aimé la trilogie du Livre perdu des sortilèges, vous ne pourrez que succomber à ce nouvel opus. Bookenstock.fr.Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Pascal Loubet.
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.
Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two other-worldly beings found themselves at the centre of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, travelled 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.
''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* READER REVIEW
''I cannot put into words how much I LOVED this book'' 5* READER REVIEW
''What a BOOK. Exactly what I needed in prep for witchy season'' 5* READER REVIEW
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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.
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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* READER REVIEW
''It was so good to be back in the world of Diana and Matthew . . . as captivating as ever!'' 5* READER REVIEW
''My favourite book of all time'' 5* READER REVIEW
''Absolutely phenomenal . . . It was completely spellbinding'' 5* READER REVIEW
''A masterpiece'' 5* READER REVIEW
Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS trilogy, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Diana Gabaldon. *A Discovery of Witches is soon to be a major TV series - immerse yourself in the ALL SOULS world*'Deborah Harkness writes as if she's the hugely more talented love child of Diana Gabaldon and J. K. Rowling' thebookbag.co.uk on SHADOW OF NIGHT
In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling. Diana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures. To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past. When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. Now the coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened. Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot. Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers...
*Now a major Sky original production*THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS trilogy.
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling 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 kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels...Five reasons to read A Discovery of Witches and the All Souls Trilogy 'Rich, thrilling ... A captivating and romantic ripping yarn' E L James'Intelligent and off-the-wall ... irrestistible to Twilight fans' Sunday Times'I could lose myself in here and never want to come out ... Utterly enchanting on every level' Manda Scott'Exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache' Marie Claire'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire ... an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy' Daily Mail
Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness returns to the spellbinding world she created in A Discovery of Witches with an unconventional love story. From human to vampire... Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself. And with tradition enforcing separation from Marcus, Phoebe's transformation will prove as challenging now as it was for Marcus when he first encountered Matthew de Clermont, his sire. Time's Convert moves with epic sweep from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, through the treachery of the French Revolution to a bloody finale in New Orleans. ' Gripping and impossible to put down, this is Twilight for grown-ups - a wonderful read!' Katie Fforde on A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES ' Thrilling . . . A captivating and romantic ripping yarn' E L James on SHADOW OF NIGHT ' Rich in arcane detail , fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy ' Sunday Mirror on THE BOOK OF LIFE In Deborah Harkness's world of witches, daemons and vampires, watch as history comes to life.
Après un séjour en 1590, Diana Bishop et Matthew Clairmont reviennent dans le présent pour affronter de nouveaux dangers. Une terrible menace pèse sur leur avenir, et elle ne se dissipera que s'ils parviennent à récupérer les pages manquantes de l'Ashmole 782. Or le temps presse, car la grossesse de Diana arrive à son terme et Matthew a de son côté décidé de défier la Congrégation qui régit la vie de toutes les créatures surnaturelles.
De vieux châteaux en laboratoires universitaires, depuis les collines de l'Auvergne jusqu'aux palais vénitiens, Diana et Matthew, décidés à protéger leur amour défendu, finiront par découvrir l'encens et terrible secret tant convoité.
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THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER * A Discovery of Witches is soon to be a major TV series - immerse yourself in the ALL SOULS world* Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the stunning climax to their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. 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. 'Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy' Sunday Mirror on THE BOOK OF LIFE After travelling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT , the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchantÂing 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 knowlÂedge and modern science, from the palaces of Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.
