The Book of Life: (All Souls 3)

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror , Science Fiction & Fantasy

Deborah Harkness (author)

Paperback Published on: 06/01/2022

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The perfect ending

Just incredible, flawless writing. It's enthralling, captivating, entertaining and heart-stopping. Loved it, couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end... READ MORE

Nicki Golding at bluewater

The perfect ending

Just incredible, flawless writing. It's enthralling, captivating, entertaining and heart-stopping. Loved it, couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end... READ MORE

Nicki Golding at bluewater

Flawless

Was given an advance copy by the lovely people of Headline. Flawless, Beautiful, Outstanding, Perfection... are but 4 words of many that can be used to de... READ MORE

Dami

Superb

Wow, just wow! It's difficult to explain how excellent this book is without giving anything away, as everything is so intricately linked... Anyone who has ... READ MORE

Gem R

Brilliant conclusion

A brilliant conclusion to one of the best trilogies I've read in a long time - well worth waiting for. The only problem is that I'm going to be bereft for ... READ MORE

Chrys - Plymouth

A Satisfying ending.

It's taken me quite a while to finally get round to reading the last book in the 'All Souls' trilogy but I'm very glad I did. I enjoyed this one much more... READ MORE

Penelope Bullock at Lancaster

Loved it.

A fantastic finale to a brilliantly written trilogy. Thanks so much to the author and publishers who sent me this series in advance. I read all three books... READ MORE

Nicky Cooper

I love this book

Absolutely brilliant conclusion to this trilogy. One of the few trilogies where all the books are amazingly good. Deborah Harkness has done a brilliant job... READ MORE

Liza at Basingstoke

A fitting finale

I've loved every minute of this series; the ties to history, mythology, the magic and the politics - it's a wonderful, rounded series with an intelligent a... READ MORE

Catriona at Waterstones Head Office

Total satisfaction.

It's been a long wait, but so worth it. The final part of the trilogy, and pretty much everything that could be considered a loose end is covered, and mor... READ MORE

Val Browning at Kings Lynn

Synopsis

*NOW A MAJOR SKY TV SERIES. Read the novel Season 3 is based on.*

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER

Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in this phenomenal third instalment of their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT.
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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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PRAISE FOR DEBORAH HARKNESS:

'Rich, thrilling . . . captivating' E L James

'Intelligent and off-the-wall' The Sunday Times

'Rich in arcane detail, fans will relish this exotic cauldron of romantic fantasy' Sunday Mirror

'I could lose myself in here and never want to come out' Manda Scott

'A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire' Daily Mail

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472293008
Number of pages: 656
Weight: 440g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 44 mm

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Brilliant and totally satisfying

The Book of Life is the glorious final installment of the brilliant All Souls trilogy and some might have thought the first two books might have been a har... READ MORE

Twistedwitch

The All Souls Trilogy deserves its own genre.

As the final instalment to the trilogy I couldn’t wait to get stuck into Harkness’s world of old books, history and magical adventure again. The Book of Li... READ MORE

Ejcb12

The Final Book...

'The Book of Life' is the final book in Harkness' All Souls trilogy; a series that gets better and better as you read through the book. It all comes to a p... READ MORE

Emma Hammond-Walker

Wonderful.

This really has been a terrific trilogy, with great characters, magic, mystery, suspense, brilliant writing and a coming together for literature's traditio... READ MORE

Nocturnal bibliophile

Bewitched

The 3rd book in the trilogy lived up to my expectations - start reading this book when you have nothing else pressing to do, because it is impossible to pu... READ MORE

Kathryn Burgoyne

A fabulous finale

Wow, this was literally absorbing from start to finish and it is my favourite of the trilogy; it is not often that the final book achieves the highest rati... READ MORE

Micky - bookphenomena

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

The final book of the trilogy. It is a superb story, beautifully pitched bringing the series to a satisfying end. Bravo!

Izzy O'Donnell

Thus the ewitching agical threads come together

The last book of the All Souls Trilogy - “The Book of Life” - brings back old enemies and with it new crises. Again this book had a slightly different way ... READ MORE

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