Now a major Sky original productionTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS trilogy. It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont. This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past . . . and the key to their future. A Discovery of Witches is the television adaptation of Deborah Harkness's New York Times bestselling All Souls fantasy trilogy following the story of Oxford professor and witch Diana Bishop as she solves the mystery of Ashmole 782 and falls in love with vampire Matthew de Claremont. A professor at the University of Southern California specialising in European history, Harkness is also the author of our beloved title, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.