Diana Bishop recounts growing up in the shadow of her famous grandfather, Canadian First World War flying ace Billy Bishop.As a child, Diana Bishop showed up one day at school with a brown paper bag. Inside was a large breastplate of some of the most precious war medals on the planet, including the Victoria Cross. They belonged to Canada’s most celebrated First World War pilot, Billy Bishop, and until her family donated them to the Canadian War Museum, they had bee...

The 200 angels who procreated with human women and fathered the Nephilim were cast out of Heaven. God ordered that their Nephilim children be destroyed because of their destructive and corrupt behavior on earth, but not before they fathered children of their own. The children of the Nephilim became the witches, vampires, and werewolves of lore. It was generally believed by these supernatural beings that God disapproved of them, although they were three-fourths human and were left untouched...

"Sammen løftede vi fødderne og trådte ind i det ukendte ... "Dette er den spændende fortsættelse af Heksenat om historikeren Diana Bishop fra Oxford, som er ud af hekseslægt. En dag støder hun på et gammelt, fortryllet manuskript, som det viser sig, at andre væsener – hekse, vampyrer og dæmoner – forgæves har forsøgt at få fingrene i i århundreder. En af dem er vampyren og genetikeren Matthew Clairmont, og et romantisk forhold udvikler sig mellem ham og Diana.I "Nattens sky...

Diana og Matthews forhold strider mod en gammel pagt, som skal sikre ro og afstand mellem arterne. Efter Diana er stødt på et gammelt fortryllet manuskript, forstår hun, at nogen vil hende til livs, og sammen med Matthew forsøger hun at finde ud af, hvad manuskriptet, kaldet Ashmole 782, indeholder af hemmeligheder. Efter at have rejst tilbage i tiden til elizabethanske London vender parret tilbage til nutiden for at stå ansigt til ansigt med nye udfordringer og gamle fjender. Da den størs...

Det begynder med fravær og begær.Det begynder med blod og frygt.Det begynder med en opdagelse af hekse.Historikeren Diana Bishop, der er af hekseslægt, forsker i alkymistiske skrifter og falder over et fortryllet manuskript i Bodleian Library i Oxford. Diana har ikke brugt magi, siden hendes forældre blev dræbt på grund af deres evner, men da hun mærker manuskriptets kræfter, aner hun farer og sender det tilbage i arkivet uden at afkode dets indhold og hemmeligheder.

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, now a major Sky TV series.Reasons to read The Black Bird Oracle and the ALL SOULS series:'Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted'...

'Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted' LEIGH BARDUGO'The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood - the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children. Harkness's lush prose makes a fantastical world real enough to touch' JODI PICOULTDiana Bishop journeys to the darkest...

Agatha lets sleeping vets lie...Retired PR boss Agatha Raisin is enjoying life in her pretty Cotswold village of Carsely. It even seems likely that the attractive new vet, Paul Bladen, has taken a shine to her. But before romance can blossom, Paul is killed in an accident with Lord Pendlebury's horse. Only the circumstances are rather suspicious.Agatha decides she must once more play amateur investigator. And this cloud has a silver lining - she can persuad...

Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late-eighteenth-century England.One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry and met lifelong friend Georgiana, the D...

Winner of Best Historical Crime Novel 2007In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. The Jews, made scapegoats by the all-powerful Christian clergy, have been forced to retreat into the castle to avoid slaughter by angry townspeople.Henry, King of England, is displeased. The Jews provide a large part of his revenue and therefore the real killer must be found, and quickly. A renowned investigator, Simon of Naples, i...

When the Metropolitan Police fail to realise a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community's activists and tabloids alike.Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy.Elizabeth George brings to the familiar subject of the serial killer a freshness and cla...

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fightin...