![]() ![]() Her novels’ main characters are Diana Bishop, a scholarly witch, and Matthew Clairmont, a scientific vampire-and the couple is surrounded not only by fellow witches and vampires but by demons too. The All Souls Trilogy, as it is called, fuses Harkness’s deep understanding of supernatural beliefs across millennia with a playful imagination and strong storytelling gifts. ![]() Next came Shadow of Night, and last week Harkness’s final book in the trilogy, The Book of Life, was published by Viking and snapped up by her ravenous readers. ![]() A Discovery of Witches hit the New York Times best seller list in 2011. When Deborah Harkness, a professor of European history at the University of Southern California, turned her knowledge of Renaissance magic, science and family life into a novel, it was an instant sensation. ![]()
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