![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the latter of course! As soon as Diana tries to open the manuscript, it activates a spell that draws the attention of all the supernatural beings around. ![]() An even strong impulse held me back: Was my curiosity intellectual, related to my scholarship? Or did it have to do with my family’s connection to witchcraft. My fingers itched to open it and learn more. But I knew there was something odd about it from the moment I collected it. īut – albeit unwittingly – I had called up an alchemical manuscript that I needed for my research and that also seemed to possess an otherworldly power that was impossible to ignore. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, ancient and worn. The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. ![]() As the book begins, Dr Diana Bishop, an American visiting scholar at All Souls college, is collecting a book in Duke Humphrey’s Reading Room in the Bodleian Library in Oxford… As in JK Rowling’s world, where muggles rarely have any idea of the wizarding folk living amongst them, Harkness has come up with a variant on that in which there are three kinds of supernatural beings living alongside humans and trying to keep their true natures hidden: they are vampires, daemons and witches. ![]()
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