At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches-with one significant exception. In The Book of Life,ĭiana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present-facing new crises and old enemies.
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.īringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. 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.
Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Through his mate Ysabeau, he is the father to Matthew, Louisa and Louis.Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. The family patriarch, Philippe de Clermont was sired in Ancient Greece (his alias Alcides Leontothymos is an allusion to the divine hero Heracles) and in turn sired three sons and three daughters: Hugh, Godfrey, Baldwin, Stasia, Freyja and Verin. In Harkness’ books, Baldwin has one vampire daughter, named Miyako. Baldwin occupies the de Clermont seat on ruling organisation the Congregation, but covets leadership of the Knights of Lazarus, both established by Philippe de Clermont. Philippe’s only surviving blood-son in the present day, Baldwin was sired by the de Clermont patriarch during the time of the Roman Empire, making him Matthew and Louisa’s older brother, and the nominal head of the family after Philippe’s death at the hands of the Nazis in the 1940s. In Deborah Harkness’ All Souls books, other siblings are mentioned, including Louisa’s twin brother Louis, also sired by Ysabeau but dead by the time of A Discovery of Witches and the vampires sired by Philippe: Hugh (who sired Gallowglass, making him Matthew’s nephew), Godfrey, Stasia, Freyja and Verin. Baldwin and Louisa – vampires sired respectively by Philippe and Ysabeau – are Matthew’s surviving brother and sister (surviving in the 17th century at least). Her mate Philippe de Clermont is Matthew’s non-blood vampire father.
Matthew was sired by Ysabeau de Clermont in the 6 th century, making her his blood-mother.
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