‘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

‘The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood – the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children. 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 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 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, now a major Sky original TV series**

Return to the enchanting world of All Souls for a love story like no other…

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.