Deborah Harkness
History professor who tumbled down the rabbit hole and wrote the international best-selling books of the All Souls series FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSCHARACTERSNEW
The Black Bird Oracle
“The Black Bird Oracle ushers in a thrilling new era for Diana, an Oxford scholar and powerful witch, as she navigates marriage to the vampire Matthew and motherhood, while reckoning with dark secrets from her family’s storied past. There’s no better time to get swept up in the romance, adventure, and magic of the All Souls world, beginning with A Discovery of Witches.”
—Bustle
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In BOOK FIVE of the All Souls Series, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana

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I can…
1. Ysabeau is in it 2. No living falcons are in it 3. No dead falcons are in it 4. Tamsy is in it 5. Davy Hancock is in it

You are going to need more shelf space…

THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE paperback edition, coming May 6, 2025
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Q: Can we expect to see more seasons of the ADOW TV show soon?
A: I can write books or make tv. Not both. I am choosing to write. x Deb
“The law is king.”
--Thomas Paine #CommonSense #UpholdAndDefendTheConstitution

2024 in review
..through highlights of my #gratitude posts. Via my monthly newsletter or click this link to see it online (and subscribe!).

My Villain Era playlist
LISTEN here A playlist for grownups who might need something without jingle bells on planes, trains, and automobiles this holiday season.
Today’s gratitude is for the free and independent press
Necessary for democracy: the AP the NewsHour on PBS the Guardian, now on @bluesky. These are my reliable sources of news, without fear- and rage-baiting or a desire to fill the 24-hour news cycle.